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Subject - Telephone Shock???
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r1racer
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A friend of mine is an electrical engineer and we were talking about electricity...as it is interesting to me, and he tells me that if you are touching a bare home telephone wire (hot) while its ringing that its possible to die or get a severe electrical shock. True???
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Electricman
| I know from first hand expierince that you can get shocked. We had a service call and I found a broken (ring) wire, well as I am splicing it I hear the downstairs phone ring and SWAK I take a pretty good shock. Its my understanding that the voltage can be as high as 90 volts AC. So next time you have a service call like so,take all the phones off the hook that way I believe the tickle will only be around 9 volts DC and there should be no AC ringing voltage delivered.
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r1racer
| WOW!!! I DIDNT BELIEVE HIM.
PHONE MANUFACTURERS SHOULD HAVE THAT WRITTEN IN THEIR MANUALS.
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bobo
| its 120v ac, when it rings. 48 volts dc, line votage. dial tone and all
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kbsparky
| Phone circuits operate on 25Hz when ringing, in case anyone is interested.
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lctrc789
| Sure all phone compnay lines have voltage 48 or 118 volts when they ring. Could it kill you D/C voltage lower HZ s it is possible never heard of it but can it shock you OH yea.
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Electricman
| That should be hurts not hertz trust me
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Romex Racer
| It's a square wave, not a sine wave. Square waves seem to hurt more. 
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