Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!netsys!vector!nobody From: jailbait@dasys1.UUCP (Richard Segal) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: AT&T model 5500 Answering System Summary: What are the power requirements of this thing? Keywords: ATT 5500 voltage amperage ac/dc etc. Message-ID: Date: 8 Oct 88 23:52:58 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Reply-To: jailbait@dasys1.UUCP (Richard Segal) Organization: The Big Electric Cat Lines: 17 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp (USENET Telecom Moderator) X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 8, issue 156, message 1 X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu (TELECOM Digest Coordinator) X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp (USENET Telecom Moderator) Briefly, I recently got a model 5500 phone/answering machine. It didn't come with a power supply box. Now, as I am a inquisative sort, I tried plugging 12 VDC into the plug where it says it should be getting 16 VAC, 12VA. The only immediately obivous problems in operation was that there wasn't enough power to generate correct TT tones. Other than that, and the fact that I don't have an endless loop tape to test the answering machine, it SEEMS (I say it SEEMS) to be working fine. The question is, what does this machine actually want? Yeah, If I can't get a good response here, I will end up going to AT&T, but I'd rather avoid that - too much hassle. Anyway, many thanks in advance, JB (PS, no, I don't know if the thing really works - we'll get to that later.) -- Richard Segal NYU Student, Rev., Looney at Large Big Electric Cat Public UNIX ARPA:SEGAL@ACFCluster.NYU.EDU ..!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!jailbait BITNET:SEGAL@NYUACF.bitnet "Bob", Eris, Norton I, Mal-2, Jailbait. Doesn't it have a nice ring to it?