NEED HELP!! Incoming calls causing a short.

[recrum]

I've only had to do basic rewiring and a lot of cosmetics for my restores so I seriously need the help of the masters.  My first automatic electric 40 that has sat on the end table looking pretty suddenly has a problem.  I can call out just fine.  When I get in incoming call it stops after one ring with the other end just getting a very faint bit of static like someone answered it but no one did.

[rdelius]

Ring trip-bad ringer capacator. replace with a  .47 on 1 uf at more than 200v   max

[recrum]

Ring trip-bad ringer capacator. replace with a  .47 on 1 uf at more than 200v   max

So you're saying I all of a sudden blew the capacitor for the ringer?

[rdelius]

Ringer capacators get old and leaky with age  .When you are called,You get too much momentary dc flow and the CO thinks you have  picked up the handset

[dsk]

By my experience 2 thing2 may cause this:
1 A bad capacitor (may happen on new and old phones)
2 To high ringer load, caused by to many phones, ore one really old one with lo impedance ringer. (Happend once for me with a 1920-ish phone with 2 microfarad capacitor and 1000 ohms ringer)

dsk

[recrum]

Thank you guys for the help.  Everything else was disconnected to test and still had same result.  So it looks like I'll be on the lookout for another capacitor.  I didn't know where to even begin my troubleshooting which is why I'm so glad this forum exists.

[RB]

Don't know if this is good info or not...
does it have a dial???
does it return all the way???
How would you expect it to behave if the dial were faulty?

[recrum]

It does have one and returns completely.  No clue if the dial could cause my issue, don't even know if a bad line cord would.  Bringing my phones back to life has been more cosmetic, cleaning contacts and basic wiring of new cords.  Nothing ever this involved.

[rdelius]

The capacitor is the most likely cause altough I have seen bad modular plugs with lightning damage also cause ring trip

[recrum]

I scavenged one off a parts phone just haven't gotten around to digging out the soldering iron yet. Thanks everyone for the help.

[Vacuumlad1650]

We have this same problem with line two on my Grandparents phone at their house. Still POTS, and I've run all new cable to the jacks to a new (uncluttered) terminal board. Any unnecessary cables and jacks were removed.

[recrum]

We have this same problem with line two on my Grandparents phone at their house. Still POTS, and I've run all new cable to the jacks to a new (uncluttered) terminal board. Any unnecessary cables and jacks were removed.

Were you able to solve the problem?  Time got away from me and I just never got back around to trying to fix mine.