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From: KLH@nic.ddn.mil (Ken Harrenstien)
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Subject: Re: Trivial Ring Detection
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Date: 21 Nov 89 10:31:23 GMT
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X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 526, message 4 of 8

More than one person has suggested the following:

    43-177 Phone Flasher  (switches up to 300 watts of 120VAC) $14.95
    43-178 Phone Flasher II (has 120VAC strobe)                $29.95

I appreciate the responses but I'm afraid I erred on the side of being
overly concise.  My question was specifically worded "throughout the
house"...  that is, in several rooms.  I already have a couple of
flashers (telco-provided and otherwise) which do the same thing as the
above devices, but to accomplish the "throughout" would either require
running a modular cord to multiple devices, or multiple AC power cords
to each room.

Ugh.  The popular X-10 home control system seems like a much more
elegant and flexible method of distributing the signal, which is why
I'm attracted to it -- but the Radio Shack catalog, at least, appears
to offer no off-the-shelf way to tie a ring detector into an X-10
controller.  No light sensors (even for the "home security" aspect).
If any of the flasher devices used an all-purpose relay instead of an
resistive-only triac I could at least invent a Rube Goldberg
arrangement that repeatedly bashed at a controller button... :-)

  Ken