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I tried this but I think I got some wires crossed over, now the telephone lights up and I have to use the lamp to make telephone calls :/

I remember this video back when it was new. And now nobody even has a land lines lol

You can use this same basic concept to tap into the free power at the top of telephone poles... next video "Free Hidden Fuel In 7-11 Storage Tanks".

Wow no one here from 2021 just reminiscing about the good ole days of RU-vid and the internet in general

Even though I will never actually go out and buy the stuff to do this, I just love watching these videos you're a genius

What's really funny about this video is that he has a wireless handset.. which doesn't work when the power goes out. :P

I haven't had a landline phone since 2009.

I used a 48v power inverter on mine and it powered my air conditioner. Worked great till i got my phone bill for the month.

I used "FREE Hidden Electricity!" from phone line during siege of Sarajevo for powering fm radio

This is AMAZING. I have had 24 telephone lines installed and as long as I keep paying the rental I can run a small toaster for FREE.

I use my telephone line for all of my electrical needs and I use my home electrical outlet to make phone calls...I'm scamming everyone!

I like the flashing light, so deaf people can now enjoy using the phone...... Oh, wait....LOL

Anarchist Cookbook... 10 years ago. This is also featured in "phreaker" publications. Also, did you know that the voltage changes when someone answers the phone? Using old blueprints, you can build a device that gives you free calls, because the voltage doesn't change... and only reports that the phone is still ringing, when in fact, you (or the other party) has answered it?

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The phone line costs more than the energy it supplies. It's about economics, physics, the Matrix!.

Free hidden electricity from your wall...

Now my tv is a phone and my phone is a tv

your secret source of going to jail!!

This is brilliant, I would imagine you can also use a step up converter to bring the volts up to 120-240. I'll also have to look up how much Amps these wires run on..

Ahhh good old kipkay videos

Saw this in a banned book. Glad someone actually tried it. Epic.

Yes, the phone lines provide a voltage separate from your mains power. This is of course assuming you have a working phone line (like, paid the phone company), and that the power lines and phone lines are independent, as often the run next to each other, and if one is out, often so is the other. Also, what powers your phone lines? The problem comes from "free electricity". Its not electricity. That makes it sound like you could charge your iPhone or run an appliance through it. No, you can't. The only thing it will power are old phones, and small circuits like LED's, but really, using an LED torch would be more effective, cheaper, safer, and more useful as its mobile. You can't exactly draw much current out of it, so nobody is really trying to hide anything from you because there is nothing to hide. Oh, and if anything goes wrong with your device, and to short circuit anything, you could easily cause a fire, lose your phone line, or make the telco company very unhappy. Just don't mess with it.

Whats funny is when the power goes out that phone he's using will be useless, Its a CORDLESS phone which requires power at the base to operate!

If I may ask, How did you calculate the correct resistance for the resistors? Also, Could you replace one of the resistors with a pot to make a variable power output? If you could, what resistance would you recommend? Thanks!

In the Uk if Bt find you doing this they will prosecute and cut your phone off.

So all I have to do is get 100 phone lines installed in my house. Take that Illuminati!

A friendly note to those who want to do this in 2015 (or later): Check with your phone company if they aren't going to shut the old phone lines down in the nearest time. A repairman told me that these old phone lines are going to work for about two years, then we're going to have to plug our phones straight into our modems (or switch to cell phones already). YMMV depending on where you live, of course.

Yes this is Illegal in the UK. They can tell when you use that source. But I think the idea of the video is more about showing you how you can understand electricity and circuits. He teaches you basic skills and shows you uses for said skills. I don't think Kip would advise anyone to break the law. But understanding how something works is good knowledge you can build on later.

That is so amazing. I never thought that it could be possible to do this!

Thanks Guy's, I got carried away!! The standard grid-tie inverter, though it uses less than the telephone company 48volts, still needs a certain amount of amperage to go with that voltage to get it up to the rated wattage. Thanks for bringing me back down to earth! LOL !!

Now all you need is a land line!!! LOL!!!!!!!!

there is electricty in a phone outlet. I once shocked the shit outa myself with a phone cord

Had a T1 copper internet line back in the day that would shock the hell out of you. Definitely had some current to it.

I jotted that circuit down for hurricane season... Thanks!

years ago before cell phones came about public phone booths had a hidden 120v outlet you could plug a truck block heater in when you parked by them.

What would happen if you hooked this up to a battery bank so it was charging car batterys 24/7? Basically like a battery bank for solar panels, but with the telephone jack for "power in" instead of PV panels. Would this be able to charge them up in a reasonable amount of time? or is the power so low that it would take too long to make it worth while. If you could get enough power to run a laptop for a few hours before draining the battery's, and then had to wait a day for them to recharge up again, it wouldn't be a bad little set up. Or possibly to power your lighting in your house at night time, as long as everything is LED and you don't have 5 million lights.

sooo coool Kip Kay!

They are normally backed up with lead acid batteries, but they're not in those tiny green boxes. Some of the larger cabinets or vaults might have a battery though, but only as backup in case the power goes out.

Discovered during a power outage. Had an old rotary phone, noticed it had a dial tone...I put a voltmeter on it, and voila, flashlight!

too bad i havent had a land line for about 10 years now

great videos thanks kipkay

OMG when you said 'when the phone rings' my phone rang!!

looks like a good way to burn your house down to me

40-55VDC idle. 90VAC ring down. Kapow...

Just noting here (part of another conversation I picked up on it) that the circuit design you are using here will likely damage the 317 chip. According to the specifications of the chip itself, the maximum allowance for differential (input to output voltage) is 40V. The design above...you have R1 and R2 mixed up relative to the proper circuit design specs of the 317...though that isn't an issue...the variable above is R1...but the design specs show R2 as the resistor variable that adjusts the output relative to input...that said...maximum voltage differential is pretty clear in the spec sheet...exceed it, you run the risk of destroying the chip itself as a result. The design above will yield (if I follow the spec sheet) roughly 4VDC as an output. Your example above would yield a rough 2VDC output. Since your input voltage after the rectifier chip could be anywhere from 50V to 100V (ring events double that lower voltage level typically)...you are easily exceeding the differential allowance of 40V...any appreciable load could potentially overload the circuit and cause a cascade failure of the device itself. Even doubling your output voltage will yield similar problems. Alternatively, you could place a resistance load in parallel with the rectifier DC output voltage to drop it to a better workable range for the device. Do not place a load on the AC input side of the rectifier...it will cause significant load on the phone line. See the following link...it also contains the data sheet from whence I got the I/O differential specification. www.electronics-lab.com/articles/LM317/ Also, note the capacitors...those are there for noise elimination...VERY important detail on a line that is used for data....the noise generated on the above example...the LED light will be somewhat limited in its noise output...but other devices like low power radios for example, will spit their noise right through to the source and possibly interfere with your DSL signals, degrading performance dramatically due to line noise presence.

Nice video! One of the only video's to fullscreen on my iPad

i bet i could produce more electric power using a dynamo from a bicycle

We dropped phone line service because we all have cell phones, and it still works

I really like your Ideals this one looks a little complicated though Ill keep watching thanks.

thank god I can charge my vape in an emergency

I assume this does not work if you're not being served by the phone company?

How much current can you draw?

That awkward moment when the phone company visits your house.

It's good for an emergency, but it's probably more expensive to do this, in equipment prices, than just plugging that LED lamp to your normal outlet and paying for the electricity. :p

Alex Reents You don't believe me? Get a multimeter and test it yourself. You will find that the voltage of a landline in the USA is around 48 volts. You are the fool!

I wonder if I can have my computer running on this source

hehe when it zoomed in on the phone... my IRL phone rang :D

Free power, at the expense of someone else.

I like free electricity!!!

I had 600'000'000'000 volts hidden in my phone

Go onto your neighbor's balcony. Find a plug. FREE ELECTRICITY! ;)

gunna be useing this when the hurricane hits

Could you make this run a USB device?

In Lebanon this would be very useful. The electricity goes out for 6 hours, and comes back for 6 hours. But sadly, the phone company doesn't support that :(

My phone rang when it rang in the video... :D

POTS phone lines aren't really used now a days. VoiceoverIP has became more popular in the last decade. Since the late 2000s my family's cable company provided us with a VoiceoverIP system which has backup battery.

How many amps?

Couldn't you just use a bridge rectifier circuit with a few capacitors and a 5 volt voltage regulator to make it power a female USB plug?

OMG THANK YOU!!!! One of these have been sitting in my house that I've been living in for the past 5 years!!! NOW I CAN CHARGE MY IPHONE!!

I'm pretty sure a rectifier in series with a regulator functions like a relay, therefore preventing the light from interfering with your phones.

is this legal?????

Can we charge a phone ?

I hooked this up to my fridge and now it's making long distance phone calls back to it's girlfriend in China

And then, I got zapped with 1000 volts of electricity! LOL

If your using internet over DSL, prolonged usage of this might degrade your phone cables therefore slowing down your internet. This is especially a problem if you live in newer suburbs of Australia were the wire gauge is quite thin.

if you can hook up a 12v USB charger should that be grate

Thank you!

Wish me well?? Lol, you're gonna need all the help you can get!!

i have fiber. o well

Sure it powers a small led light, but won't power a 2500 watt Oil filled Electric radiator to heat my home. So pointless really. Unless you are really stingy about paying a tiny electric bill for burning an led lamp which equals pennies a year.

Please can you tell me where to buy all of the parts from?

I had a home phone that didn't have a power cable. So now I know how it worked.

Does anyone actually have a regular phone today ? between cell phone and VOIP like Vonage . I can't believe the phone company is still in business ?

I really dig it! Is there any way you could post a diy video for a "phone jack to 5V usb(female usb?)" so devices could be charged? Thanks for considering.

Wait is the modem not lose power from convertogn from the coaxial cable from outside to back feed into the daisychained tel line modular connection jacks inside? Due to the modem being where a phone line revives the power from...except for also the phone must have power to send to the base unit aka the charger cradle for the handset? Just curious if we were to try this too how to do it?

KipKay frequented the same hacker forums I did back then.

I'm amazed that this circuit works at all, because I've never seen an LM317 wired like that before. Provided the pinout is standard (nice job not showing which way it's supposed to go, by the way), VOut and Adj are wired together with resistors with the actual output in between. It may work, but it's a nonstandard way of wiring it. Perhaps an electronics tech or EE could shed light on this?

any place i can buy this ready made?

As far as I know in the UK this is illegal. Thats why you cordless phone base station still has a AC power supply.

Now I would like to know how to charge my cell phone using this method.

I'm gonna run my water heater on the phone line from now on!

This guy is f£$% amazing, his even telling us how to get free electricity

its good that yu doing these videos to helpp people save money im impressed

what type of resistors are you using?

10 years later I’m a kid and don’t even know what a phone line is

"its very simple, all you need is a few components, a telephone line, and a simple degree in mechanics from MIT, there, now we are ready to get "free" electicity"

I've tried this before, and our landline phone stopped being able to receive calls. This was probably because you can't get much current at all through the phone line, and it ended up cutting the power to the other ports in the house.

Thank you i did it too and it worked you are awesome