Definitely not from an input, as the only thing connected to it is the phone system, and it does it even if you're not paging.
As far as "proving" anything by putting the speakers on the 25 volt side, I was thinking the fault might only exist on the 70 volt side. As I stated, this is my first time trouble shooting these, so you'll have to bear with me as since I didn't design the thing I don't know any better.
Last time I checked watts is a function of Volts times amps. I figured since I don't have the proper meter, this would at least tell me if there was something really wrong with the draw if it was ridiculously high for 26 speakers. Which I'm assuming are tapped at 1 watt, since the one i pulled down was, and the math makes sense.
I guess this is not the way to do it, and I'm sorry if I offended your delicate sensibilities.
Thanks for at least one useful(?) piece of advice in that too much current draw won't cause the issue!
