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sericks
Jul 19, 2006
Box Fulla' Orks: like a barrel of monkeys, but squarer and more deadly.

Ibsen posted:

Complete stupidity

This is likely more expensive, more dangerous, and less effective than cutting your phone cord and sticking it in a power outlet.

With that much current your soldered joints are going to melt/catch fire/blow in short order, leaving you with a small fire, a torn open equipment box, and a running generator you need to get rid of in a hurry.

If the joints and wires somehow hold up, you'll probably trip whatever overvoltage protections are on the other end. Yes, they have those: the telcos know drat well phone lines aren't immune to power surges or lightning strikes.

You can definitely inconvenience a few customers this way. You already have wrecked some equipment, and may have damaged some more on the other end of the wires. Under no circumstances will this shut down an entire area code, even in the old days when all the phones had to be physically wired up.

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