Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bu.edu!telecom-request From: joe@mojave.ati.com (Joe Talbot) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: How do You Hook up a Phone For a Play? Message-ID: Date: 27 Feb 91 19:07:12 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Organization: ATI, High desert research center, Victorville, Ca Lines: 26 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 167, Message 7 of 11 Use a REAL ring generator and an unmodified REAL phone. An outfit called Minnesota Telephone installers is selling a small ring generator that (I beleive) is the one used on the old shoebox four line key systems. It's a very small black cube with a short AC cord on it and two screws that have about 100 volts at 30 hertz (unplug before connecting). It will ring an unmodified phone of about any vintage (your play may be set in the thirties as my high school play was, so I used a 300 desk set. The 300 wasn't made until the fourties but nobody could tell, I didn't think a trimline was appropriate). Just run a cable to the phone's location (1 pair bridged ringing!). Connect the phone at the one end. At the other end, connect one wire from the pair to a screw on the generator, connect the other to a push button and the other side of the button to the other screw on the generator. Push the button to ring the phone (wow). Minnesota Telephone installers: (612) 894-1904 You want a WE 118A ring generator advertised for $30 in Telephone International. (Try bargaining; they can't be selling that many. Mention what it is for. Many of these secondary vendors are very helpful and flexible. I have never done business with these people, however.) joe@mojave