Questions tagged [telephone]
A telephone, is a telecommunications device that converts sound into electronic signals suitable for transmission via cables
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Advice on mounting 4 wire video door phone with electromagnetic lock [closed]
I need some advice for mounting a video door phone with electromagnetic lock, using 4 wires only and a single power supply.
The actual model is HIKVISION DS-KIS202
This is a diagram of what I want ...
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Vintage Phone, rings on 12volt battery. How can I link this now to ring on an incoming call [closed]
I have purchased a Western Electric vintage phone which works with the modern telephone network and there is a cable out the back that once connected to a 12 volt battery rings out. However, I am ...
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Electric shock in water [closed]
In my country, someone died recently due to an electric shock when their smartphone fell in a bathtub. I'm trying to understand what's going on the charger side when a poor quality cable used to ...
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Slow usb charger for my smart phone? [closed]
I read that the optimal charger for smartphone batteries is 3.92v (to reduce degradation). Is it possible to implement a system that allows an external "charger" to cause charging to stop at this ...
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Number of voice channels for PSTN call
Does Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) use two voice channels for a single voice call - one for each direction?
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Is there any relation between LJU (Line Jack Unit) and broadband speed? [closed]
My question is about LJU (Line Jack Unit) aka Rosette.
I am having BSNL (service provider company) copper line broadband in India.
In spite of having wired broadband, I get speeds of 6Mbps(download)...
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Getting two way audio from/to a landline telephone, and making it ring
I have a "land line" telephone (ie. with an RJ11 plug) and a CSR8615 HFP bluetooth module (datasheet) — I'm looking to make my mobile's phone calls ring the land line phone, as well as being able to ...
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What misconception about telephone circuits are they trying to address?
I'm reading a book called "Telephony" published in 1905 (Miller,Mcmeen).
The book starts with this quote:
To properly understand the manner in which sound is transmitted from one end of an ...
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How does a video entry system send audio and video, as well as ring/unlock over 4 wires?
I’ve been trying to understand how my door entry system works.
Between the monitor/base station and the bell/camera/speaker there’s only 4 wires:
12V DC
GND
Voice (2 way)
Video (1 way)
I opened it ...
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Interface broadcast phone-in console with GSM telephone
I have a broadcast phone-in console with RJ-11 telephone inputs. Since landline telephone line is more noisy and prone to failure, I want to interface a GSM based landline ( with no RJ 11 loop-through ...
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Can I extend a single twisted pair DSL line using a coaxial cable?
I'm in the process of setting up a DSL modem/wifi router, which should be connected to a phone line that uses a single twisted pair. However, the phone line enters my house in a slightly inconvenient ...
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Are the two wires in a telephone cable swappable?
I am in Switzerland.
Our landline is delivered through an unshielded twisted pair cable.
Are the wires in the pair swappable ? Or does it have a polarity ?
The lines is supposed to provide ADSL ...
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Power consumption [duplicate]
A phone charger is rated with input of AC 240v 50/60Hz 0.35 amps will it accept only 240 v 0.35 or will it take full 240 v 16 amps and step it down please I am very new to electrical stuff please help ...
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Spiral hoar frost and spiral device around telephone or electric landlines
I live in Germany.
When I travel by train, sometimes there are cables that run from pole to pole parallel to the train track.
From the lack of insulation between wire and pole, I guess these are ...
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SIM to RJ: emulating SIM card as a RJ connector [closed]
i recently got in a Goodwill store one of the 2500 model phones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_500_telephone#Model_2500 and i want to use it. the problem is that i don't have a phone line in my ...
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Detect phone call termination
I am designing an automated telephone circuit that will work with the PSTN line. I already had a question to detect the incoming ring signal. Now I want to detect whether the opponent person in the ...
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CAT5 for telephony
I wish to extend my incoming telephone connection using CAT5 as I've heard it could provide better performance than standard single stranded telephone wire over long distances.
There are only two ...
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TDMA in telephone circuit switching - isn't there delay in transmitting a particular user's speech? [closed]
Let's do a simple case on the left with X and A user telephones.
So the way an analog signal (user's speech X) is handled, is that it is sampled at 8000 bits / sec.
The high-speed C-channel has 128 ...
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600 ohm modem transformer impedance calculation by formula
From the datasheet of a modem transformer
we have:
Impedance, Primary: 600 Ω Typ. @ 1 kHz 1 Vrms*
Shunt Inductance Lp, Primary: 3.2 H min. @ 1 kHz
D.C. resistance @20°C: Primary = 82 Ω ± 15%
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Which capacity measurement is the correct way to measure?
So I've seen batteries showing their capacity in mAh and I've seen others showing in Wh. Phone batteries are always measured in mAh, while for some reason BatteryInfoViewer on my computer only shows ...
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Why telephone lines use -48V not +48V? What’s the difference practically in -ve and +ve voltages? [duplicate]
Why telephone lines use -48V not +48V? What’s the difference practically in -ve and +ve voltages?
Detailed answer would be appreciated.
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Is it legal to use electricity from a phone line?
I saw a video by ElectroBOOM where he wiretapped his home phone. So, apparently, there is around 40v coming through the phone line, with higher peaks when it rings etc. I have a few questions about ...
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General questions about the telephone line a.k.a “last mile” [closed]
Before the digital data gets conveyed over the "last mile", it passes a modem, which converts this digital data into audio signals (Which is often called analog) (but the binary system still is there, ...
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3x AA battery phone charger input voltage drop
I am using a 0.9-5 V to 5 V dc-dc step up converter to charge a phone using 3 AA batteries, but whenever I plug in the phone it starts charging but the input voltage drops from ~4.5 V to less than 2 V ...
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How are severed phone lines, the ones on utility poles, repaired when they are severed
I have been searching for this answer for a long time and I haven't found any info on the way severed lines are repaired. There must be tens of thousands of tiny wires that must reconnected, and in ...
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Analog (POTS) telephone off-hook detection
With a single POTS telephone line and two or more handsets, when a call comes in, each handset can join in with the call. This can sometimes be an issue when one user doesn't know the line is in use, ...
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How does this old telephone ringer work?
I bought an old rotary phone with the hopes of cannibalizing it for a doorbell/intercom thing in my apartment building. It looks absolutely marvelous inside:
However, I'm having trouble figuring out ...
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Using a usb-c laptop charger to charge a phone [closed]
I don't really know anything about electronics and I'm not sure if it's the right place to ask, but still.
Is it OK to charge my phone with my laptop's charger?
Here's info on the laptop charger:
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How does the telephone's keypad work?
I disassembled some old telephone and mobile phone. Every keypad is different, and yet, all of them have those "spirals" (see the image below) under the button or something similar.
What I don't ...
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Fast charging 2.0: 7V×2.5A, 9V×2A or 12V×1.5A?
The FastCharge 2.0 standard has these charging specifications in the exact same charger (a VoltCraft car charger):
5 V up to 2.0 A (10 W max.)
7 V up to 2.5 A (17.5 W max.)
9 V up to 2.0 A (18 W ...
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How well does telephone delay correlate to geographic distance?
I have a friend who lives on the other side of the world, and every time we speak over the phone, there's roughly a second of delay between one of us saying something and the other hearing it. I've ...
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Why do push button telephones use dual-tone for signalling?
Here is a related information from wikipedia:
For touchtone service, the signal is a dual-tone multi-frequency
signaling tone consisting of two simultaneous pure tone sinusoidal
frequencies.
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iPhone not charging when plugged last [closed]
The power extension has two USB slots. I noticed that when a Xiaomi phone is plugged first, and then iPhone next, the iPhone doesn't charge. However, if it's done in reverse, iPhone first, Xiaomi ...
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Is it dangerous to continue to remove a slightly punctured phone battery?
I have been trying to replace the phone screen on a Galaxy S7, and therefore had to remove the battery in the process. While doing so, I saw a tiny spark and felt a weird smell. I can't see any damage ...
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Why do devices stop operating properly in extreme cold?
I have noticed that a lot of smart phones say that they won't operate under -4 degrees F (-20 degrees C). Can anyone explain to me what happens when the phones get cold that stops them from operating?
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How to split hybrid two-way audio line?
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My apartment has a simple door intercom system which uses a hybrid two-wires line to carry both the receiving and transmitting audio signals for each floor unit. The wires are connected to each ...
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Can I charge my phone with a very low amp?
I am working on a charging device for a smartphone, it's for a science project, Currently I finished planning all the electronic parts for it and I am getting ready to start building, however I ...
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Can I use a similar AC adapter with different input but the same output?
I have a landline telephone from Japan. The owners manual says only use OUR AC adapter, {Input 100v 50/60Hz 8VA - Output DC 11V 430mA}
I want to use this in North America - can I use a AC adapter ...
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Connect RF module to phone to find distance between them
I would like to know if it is possible to connect an RF(radio frequency) module to my smartphone and find the distance between them with an accuracy of about +/-2 meters. To find distance I believe I ...
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Amplification before tubes and transistors were invented
Telephones are older than vacuum tubes and of course transistors. How was signal amplification done?
I mean the technology, not the details.
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Some additional informations that I should ...
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A trio of questions about radio/smartphones [closed]
I know that smartphones can receive FM radio using earbud/built-in antennas, but can they receive amateur radio frequencies (144 MHZ?) and if so, how?
Is there a way to sending out radio waves and ...
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What is effect of echo canceller on QAM signals?
During data call or fax call echo cancellers are switched off in entire path from phone to exchange and exchange to phone.
Echo canceller are used to cancel echo during voice call. Modulation in data ...
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Is it any possible to convert analog phone to IP phone using Raspberry PI [closed]
I need IP Phone for VOIP purpose. I have Raspberry PI and analog phone. Is there any possibility for interfacing analog phone with Raspberry PI.
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Why telephone dc voltage drops to about 8 volts? [closed]
I found out that the DC voltage supply is about 48 volts in the central office, and the typical line impedance is about 600 ohms. Also the typical current in off-hook state is about 20mA.
So with a ...
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Can an audion tube amplify a pulsating direct current or must the current be converted first to an alternating current? [closed]
Can an audion tube use a pulsating direct current as input and magnify the signal from the electrons flowing from the filament without first converting it to AC current? The reason I ask is that :
I ...
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When a AM radio wave reaches the antenna does the signal need to be in a closed circuit to be amplified?
This needs some explanation. In the diagrams of radio instructions I always see a single line from the antenna to the input for amplification. Let's use a vacuum tube amplifier as for example.
There ...
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Is it possible to have “in-out” communication in a single 56k modem?
I'm trying to implement a call blocker using a Raspberry Pi and a Zoom 3095 USB Mini External Modem using a guide I found on the web.
The modem used has a single RJ11 jack. It's not clear from the ...
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How does this telephone circuit modulate the current?
I've been reading on how old landline telephones work (POTS, as they call it) and found out it's quite a bit more involved than I had expected.
This circuit comes from the wikipedia article "...
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Charging iphone without USB [closed]
I am looking to charge my iphone using a thermoelectric power generation device. The thermoelectric generator device has positive and negative leads, and I have tried connecting the wires from the USB ...
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What are these elements and what they do?
I have a telephone circuit (Model No. Panasonic KX-TS500MXB) which has following item between TIP and Ring. Do you have any idea what it might be? At first I thought it might be a back to back zener ...
