Need a wiring schematic

[Polejockyfool]

Hello everyone, I purchased a Northern Telcom 444AC rotary phone. It can have up to 4 lines connected to it but the buttons have been removed. Someone had tried to modify the wiring so you can connect one phone line to the phone. Whatever they did would not work as I have connected it to my house phone line using an ATA digital to analog converter and I get nothing.

Can anyone provide a wiring diagram that will allow me to connect one analog line that will work?

Thanks in advance.

Polejockfool

[5415551212]

Sounds like a phone designed to go on a 1A key system?
Post some pics including the inside of the phone and the cord.
I'd try here;
https://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php/browse/bc-switching-library/western-electric/1a-key-equipment

[SUnset2]

Search on the TCI library for 1A KTS:
https://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php/search?q=1a+kts&Search=

This one looks like it might be useful:
https://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php/browse/bc-switching-library/western-electric/1a-key-equipment/13461-we-graybar-1a-kts-installation-book-1949?

[5415551212]

Here is a video forum member Phil made about a similar setup:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PTSqkQx0QY

[poplar1]

If you want to bypass the 4-line selector, you can connect the line directly to L1 and L2-Y on the 101A induction coil.

If you want it to ring, you would connect the red ringer wire to L1, the yellow capacitor wire to L2-Y, and connect the black ringer wire and the slate (gray) capacitor wire together on a spare terminal (K, for example).

[MMikeJBenN27]

It is a shame that so many people nowadays are hell-bent on destroying any and everything that isn't brand new and foreign.  Really sad.

Mike