phone lines used for power

i decided since we have an active landline at our house that id play around with the floating voltage still present on the line.

i can use this power to run a small radio headset, which i could also hook to some sort of external speakers or headphones to reduce bulk and beter sound.

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[Drowzor]

Do you think you could charge a battery with a similar connection?

[codemsan]

@Drowzor Possibly, with proper voltage regulation. Of course, it would take a while though. standard 2-wire doesnt output much current. only a few tens of milliamps.

[ct92404]

hmm...yeah, I had always wondered what the voltage is on phone lines.

You guys don't have a land line in your house? You just use cell phones or what?

[codemsan]

yea it around 48V floating, up to 100V ring at 30Hz. and yea i think i mentioned that in my video that we just use cellphones, we may get digital phone though

[HighVoltage4562]

lol phone company bitching.. yeah the headset will hold open the line so lol its active the whole time.. yeah i wish i didn't have land line phones (just the land line)in my house.. lol the wonders of land lines great videos man and i will be up loading the 45 videos i have to up load lol

[codemsan]

yeah luckily this line has no service and yet its connected...hmmm, its almost like they wanted me to take their extra power!!! lol and thanks for the nice comments, its cool to get them. and i cant wait to see some of your videos!!!

[doritostheking]

@ostapslobodian Voltage is not power.

[Wolf2u9]

Michigan im a state away from you maybe not even

[ostapslobodian]

@kingfiresprite

I'm also in Canada.

What do you think is going on with my phone?

People say it's 60v, I take a little 6 volt (six not 60) light and it barley lights up, only makes 1 little red amber.

I touch the wires, I feel nothing.

Phone works fine with it though (the phone has no batteries, or other power source, just the phone line)

[kingfiresprite]

@ct92404

It's about 50-70 volts i personally got around 60 volts. I live in canada btw

[ct92404]

...By the way, I was in an electrical surplus shop yesterday, and I saw a weird high voltage transformer. But I didn't know what it was for. I think the output was

8kv. It wasn't a neon sign transformer or furnace transformer. It was a lot bigger. I think it might have been a plate transformer, or maybe even a small potential transformer. I almost bought it, but they wanted $85 and I couldn't afford it :(