Many years ago when the phone companies forced you to rent your phone and would not allow ownership the courts stepped in and said that it was not legal for this to happen. That once the phone wire was installed in YOUR house it was YOUR choice what you hooked up to it. Hence we all started owning our phones, answering machines and other devices came along, like cassette recorders, computers etc.
I don't believe anyone is in danger of being prosecuted. Garnet On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 15:59, Wayne Fugitt wrote: > Evening Tony, > > >I think it is highly irresponsible of you to be encouraging > >inexperienced people to work with relatively high voltage. > > Did I do that? Telling about my experiences does not encourage one to > do it, unless it suits his fancy. > > Likely you and others are thinking wrong. > > First, I have offered no instructions or guidelines for connecting anything > into a phone system, connecting phone terminal blocks, any type wiring or > any interconnection at all. > > People are already working with these same voltages anytime they touch, > move, dial or talk on a hard wired telephone. This telephone line gadget > connects with the exact same cable, cord, and plug as any standard telephone. > > If one chooses to plug into the phone system, then play around with the > wires, alligator clips, and electrodes, the possibility of being shocked > does exist. However, it will not be AC, it will be DC. > > The output is DC if you input DC. The output is DC, even if you input > AC. There is no polarity problem no matter what polarity is input. The > output is the same and correct, Red is Positive, Black is negative. > > Some mathematical odds enter in. Remember the definition of an accident > is "A conflict of Time". > If you worked at this 24 hours per day, and get 100 phone calls per day, it > may still take a few years for you to feel the thrill of 90 VAC or 90 VDC. > > Believe me, I have worked with many phone systems, phone gadgets, > interconnection of alarm dialers, modems, ...... you name it. > > Only once was I troubleshooting phone wires at my shop when some fool > called me 100 times in 15 minutes. Yes, I was shocked many times. Each > time, I was trying to decide which friend wanted to irritate me that day. > > Never before or never again have I had that happen. At this time, I was > working with 4 lines, had wires off terminal blocks and actually testing > those wires. > > Yes, I sell and install phone systems too. > > >You have vast experience and are also a major hero in many ways. Most > >people are not in your category. > > Telephones and Elevators have a proven safety record. It any hazard > existed by now, someone would have found a way to execute it, don't you > agree? > > I appreciate your concern for our brother list members. I share the > same concern, yet I posted no warnings relative to working with telephone > terminal blocks and standard telephone patch cords. > > IF further warnings and cautions are needed, some our list members, the > "Real Engineers" will tell us about it, I trust. > > Wayne > > > > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com > Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com > OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com> >
