[Asterisk-Users] TDM04B

[David Brodbeck]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregory Wiktor - ADCom Corp. [mailto:gw at adcomcorp.com]

> I did that once on a cheap linejack card.  Took a week to get 
> the smell
> out of the office, and the bright orange from inside the server was
> quite interesting :)  Only took 1 second to start a small flame going,
> but fortunately I cought it quick. 

Reminds me of when I smoked cheap a sound card connecting it to the tape
output of a tube amp.  The sound card apparently had no DC blocking
capacitor on its input, and the tube amp had some DC on its output...

> 
> I wonder if the zaptel cards have any kind of protection from 
> this sort of thing...

No, they don't.  Someone mentioned damaging one this way just a couple weeks
ago.