Halo Jones wrote:Mrs Halo has just returned with a classic 70's 80's rotary phone. She wants to put it in our front hall. Only problem is that there is no phone socket in the hall and even if there were I disabled the bell wire long ago to prevent any interference on our ADSL line.
Before I start the painful process of somehow getting a phone socket in the hall does anyone know if there is a "gizmo" I can plug the phone into that will let it integrate into our other DECT phones?
Afternoon Halo
IIRC the bell wire on the old permanent wiring was only needed when extension phones were fitted. Under the old 'hard wired' system, the telephones were wired in parallel, but the bells were wired in series, hence the additional wire if there was more than one phone.
Before you get carried away, does the new phone have a standard plug on the end of the cable? If so, remove the cable feeding your DECT phone base station, remove any other telephones you may have from any other socketsand plug the rotary phone into the master socket and see if it works.
If you get dial tone, call a mobile to see if the exchange still recognises the dial pulses. Call your land line from a mobile to see if the bell works.
If you get that far, put a socket doubler into the master socket, reconnect the other cables, plug the rotary phone into the spare half of the socket doubler and try it with the existing telaphones connected.
If it all works, run a twisted pair of wires in a cable from an existing socket (the easiest to connect to where the rotary phone will be) and terminate one wire between terminal 5 at both ends and the other one to terminal 2 at both ends.
Let us know how it goes.
Edit - don't forget you'll need a broadband filter onthe rotary phone.
Cheers
Dave