Amazing stuff. If only life was that easy.
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14 years ago
Amazing stuff. If only life was that easy.
Stealing usually is if you have no moral qualms - until you get caught.
Sylvia.
Telstra do it every minute of the day,
- and indeed have no moral qualms, but I have yet to see any punishment.
In what way do they commit the criminal offence of stealing?
Sylvia.
I think it was a cynical view of Telstra's fee charging policies ;-)
One of my colleagues had the idea of setting up an array of these lamps over a solar cell which is connected back into the grid - thereby selling Telstra's electricity back to the power company!
It's debatable as to whether the break-even point would occur before the cease & desist order ;-)
-- Chris.
It doesn't say anything about connection to phone lines, it is infered by the RJ11 socket.
Very little power is available when the phone line is on-hook (regs say
40uA over 30min average)When off-hook current availble can be up to typically 90mA. But is the light only on when in the off-hook mode?
Does it meet the ACMA requirements for connection to a telephone line in Australia?
Hmmm sounds dodgy.
Joe
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