Phonedave
Well-Known Member
or a squirrel could have hit the circuit breaker on the telephone wire happened in our neighbor hood 3 times in a week.
Highly doubtful.
Telephone "wires" don't have circuit breakers per se. They do have circuit breaker type devices designed to shunt the circuit to ground in case of a lightning strike (so you don't get fried if you are talking on the phone when lightning hits) but they do not have "circuit breakers". Talk Battery is -48 VDC and ringing current is roughly +/- 105 VAC (at 50 hz though, so it hurts like a mother when you get nailed with it)
-dave