Subj : barbed wire telephony
To   : McDoob
From : Oli
Date : Sat Feb 19 2022 11:16:27

McDoob wrote (2022-02-18):

 Ol>>> An article about DIY rural telephone system, partially using
 Ol>>> barbed w as cable. I wonder if there ever was a BBS than ran
 Ol>>> over barbed wire

 Je>> Whoa, that's cool. And I would guess that whenever someone was
 Je>> ringing someone else, a side effect would be that the barbed-wire
 Je>> fence became an electric barbed=wire fence.

 M> Hahaha! That would be funny as hell! "Hello?" BZZZZZT! "$#&@!!!"

 M> Unfortunately, I don't think it's realistic. The amount of energy wouldn't
 M> likely be high enough to be palpable.

Are you sure?

"A ring generator or ringing voltage generator is a device which outputs 20 cycle sinusoidal AC at up to 110 volts peak to power bells or annunciators in one or more telephone extensions." (from Wikipedia)

It won't hurt badly, but it's not nothing. Also we don't know what device they used for ringing, but it needed enough power to ring all the phones.

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