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Telephone Restoration Projects and Techniques / Re: Questions About Using Rota...
Last post by Jack Aman - Today at 12:42:29 PMAnother fun thing. "Landline" calls (actually the VOIP assigned number) ring on the old phones and subsets with the familiar North American ring. Calls to my cell number ring with the British "ring-ring" pattern. Calls to my wife's cell ring through with a custom "long-short-long" pattern. All programmable in the XLink settings.
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Telephone Restoration Projects and Techniques / Re: Questions About Using Rota...
Last post by Jack Aman - Today at 12:34:03 PMI use an Xlink BTTN between the house wiring and my cable company VOIP. It works perfectly, tolerates out of spec dials and actually has adjustments in the settings/firmware for slow dials, foreign dials, etc etc. On incoming calls it rings a total of five WE ringers strongly in my house and that is without the "extra ringing power" you can command in the settings. I have several phones with the ringers disabled so incoming calls do not sound like a prison break. The fact that it also connects our cells to the house phones is a bonus. Recommended.
#13
Telephone Troubleshooting and Repair / Re: WE 554 won’t ring
Last post by LarryInMichigan - Today at 12:08:52 PMIf you connect another ringer, does it ring? Perhaps the Telo device stopped providing ringing current.
Larry
Larry
#14
Phonographs, Typewriters, Vacuums, Calculators, Juke Boxes, Slot Machines & Cameras / Re: Bell & Howell 708 Headline...
Last post by HowardPgh - Today at 10:50:54 AMBefore you install the lens, remove the bulb without getting fingermarks on it. Get the fan going first, motor bearings probably need oil. Those little slide projectors get dangerously hot.
You may be better taking Sunset 12's deal.
You may be better taking Sunset 12's deal.
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Telephone Troubleshooting and Repair / Re: WE 554 won’t ring
Last post by keithi70 - Today at 10:44:42 AMQuote from: poplar1 on Today at 01:59:01 AMTry ringing it with all other phones unplugged.
If the Ooma ATA is sending less than 77 Volts AC, you may want to adjust the biasing spring on the ringer. Try moving the spring to the low notch.
Photo credit to member G-man.
This is the only phone currently hooked up; the craziest thing to me is that it's been working fine to this point, I disassemble/ reassemble the receiver and boom...no ringer. But I'll give your suggestion a try.
#16
Telephone Troubleshooting and Repair / Re: WE 554 won’t ring
Last post by keithi70 - Today at 10:41:38 AMThanks much! I will look into your suggestion.
#17
Technical "Stuff" / Re: The end of POTS?
Last post by RDPipes - Today at 07:11:05 AMI gotta tell ya, if they come back to smooth all that out I'll be VERY surprised.
Nowadays I've witnessed many a utility company do their work and leave it as yours
looks to never return. In fact I seen very few company workmen (for the lack of a better term) in all fields do a
proper job of anything without leaving some part of it unfinished shall we say.
That I figure is do to laziness and the lack of even knowing how to spell the word integrity nowadays by many.
Wish you the best of luck sir.
Nowadays I've witnessed many a utility company do their work and leave it as yours
looks to never return. In fact I seen very few company workmen (for the lack of a better term) in all fields do a
proper job of anything without leaving some part of it unfinished shall we say.
That I figure is do to laziness and the lack of even knowing how to spell the word integrity nowadays by many.
Wish you the best of luck sir.
#18
Telephone Troubleshooting and Repair / Re: WE 554 won’t ring
Last post by poplar1 - Today at 01:59:01 AMQuote from: keithi70 on Yesterday at 09:58:14 AMYes, the ringer was previously working with both the Ooma Telo and the Dialgizmo. I've tried moving the ringer slider to the right and left to see if it'll ring in any position and nope...nothing. Is there a chance the ringer might be stuck somehow? Is there a way to test it?
Try ringing it with all other phones unplugged.
If the Ooma ATA is sending less than 77 Volts AC, you may want to adjust the biasing spring on the ringer. Try moving the spring to the low notch.
Photo credit to member G-man.
#19
Telephone Troubleshooting and Repair / Re: 3554 ISSUE
Last post by poplar1 - Today at 01:52:09 AMQuote from: MMikeJBenN27 on Yesterday at 03:52:37 PMIn the picture, I see Red, Black, Slate, and Slate/Red. Connect Slate to K and Slate/Red to A, the Red to L2, and the Black to L1. It should work.
Agreed. Don't forget to move the slate (gray) hookswitch wire from A to L2.