Rotary Won't Ring- Wires Crossed?

[Michael13]

I recently acquired three rotary phones that I thought would be fun to get into working order.  One is a wall mounted phone and the other two are table tops.  I had to replace all the lines for each, so one end would be modular. The wall phone I got working with no problem but I am having problems with the two table top phones getting them to ring.
I'll see if I can take a photo of it at some point, but hopefully I can explain it well. 
I view the line connection as a triangle.  The red and green are at the bottom and the yellow is between the two and raised.  When I do this, I get a dial tone and the phone works, but does not ring.  This is the exact set-up as the wall mounted phone, so I was surprised it wouldn't ring.  What I realized though, if I remove the yellow wire, and put the green wire there, the phone rings.  Yet, no dial tone.  So the ringer works, but something is off with the wires.  I also put the yellow wire where the green was but that did nothing.  I've switched wires in so many combos, but can only get a dial tone with the red and green at the bottom, and only a ring if I put the green above where the yellow should be.
Anyone know what I may be doing wrong?  Sorry I don't have a pic at this point, but I am hoping it may be just as easy fix.
Thanks!

[G-Man]

Remove the black ringer wire from the same terminal that the yellow wire is also connected to and move it to the same terminal that the green wire is connected.

[G-Man]

Also, it helps if you tell us the manufacturer, date and model numbers of the telephones you are inquiring about. I assume the wall telephone is a 554C/D and the desk sets are model 500C/D instruments.

The terminals are located on top of the network (metal can with plastic top with terminals.) and a layout guide and the type (425B?) is printed on the side show the locations of the network.

So if it is a 425-type network then the terminals you are referring to are L-1, L-2 and G. with the RED GREEN AND YELLOW wires connected to them. The ringer wires are SLATE, SLATE/RED which are connected to terminals A and K,  RED connected to L-2 and BLACK connected to either G or L-1 depending upon the desired ringing scheme; in your case it should be moved from G and moved to L-1.

[G-Man]

Wrong Diagram-

Try this one:

Also, it helps if you tell us the manufacturer, date and model numbers of the telephones you are inquiring about. I assume the wall telephone is a 554C/D and the desk sets are model 500C/D instruments.

The terminals are located on top of the network (metal can with plastic top with terminals.) and a layout guide and the type (425B?) is printed on the side show the locations of the network.

So if it is a 425-type network then the terminals you are referring to are L-1, L-2 and G. with the RED GREEN AND YELLOW wires connected to them. The ringer wires are SLATE, SLATE/RED which are connected to terminals A and K,  RED connected to L-2 and BLACK connected to either G or L-1 depending upon the desired ringing scheme; in your case it should be moved from G and moved to L-1.

[Michael13]

Thanks for the replies.  I verified that it is a 500C/D with a 425B network.  I wired it up based on the diagram, and moved the black wire to where the green wire- so green and black are together but I still don't get a ring.  The only way I have been able to get it to ring so far is by moving the green to the yellow, as mentioned but no dial tone.  I am not sure what I am doing wrong??

[Michael13]

I got it to work.  I misunderstood and was connecting the black wire for the line to L1.  There was an existing wire on terminal G that I moved to L1 and now it works.  Thanks for all your help!

[G-Man]

I got it to work.  I misunderstood and was connecting the black wire for the line to L1.  There was an existing wire on terminal G that I moved to L1 and now it works.  Thanks for all your help!

Thanks for letting us know of your successful outcome!