According to Doug Miller :
In article . com, wrote:
Hardly any current???? Hold the lines and wait for it
to ring. you'll feel that one!

It's somewhere around 95 VAC, but the current is indeed very low.

Voltage even when it doesn't ring, is high enough to ring your chimes if you're
well-enough grounded.

[I tried to splice a phone line while sitting on a concrete floor.
I found that I couldn't. So I had to stand up ;-) ]
--
Chris Lewis, Una confibula non set est
It's not just anyone who gets a Starship Cruiser class named after them.