Sweet, thanks! I have one that's missing the cover. I want to make an enclosure for it so I can mount it somewhere outside. I'm gonna set up with a voip box as an intercom between back room and front of our shop. It seems to have enough power to ring the bells on other phones let's hope my unit works.
My buddy owns a used car lot, They have one of these under the canopy on the outside of the building so that when the phone rings, it rings so if you are outside you will hear it from outside.
Just bought an old home and there was one at my little farm on the outside of the house. The metal covering inside is stamped 1967. I kind of want to keep it.
Originally it would use AC at 90 volts, 25Hz It will also work on lower voltages, like 20-30V, since the 90V is nominal and was realistically only available on the first few houses down the line. As frequency, you can use the 60/50Hz AC from your outlet, then however the ring will be faster. So any transformer outputting AC at 20-90 volts will do the trick.
Thank you, Jordan. Manyears ago I.nstalled the same ringer outside on the back porch - before we had cordless telephones. Connected ito a 24-hour timer so that it would only ring from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Just bought a Crosley 1957 Public Telephone replica athe thrift store. (Also coin bank. Coinsound a bell on the way down to the locked coin box!)) Hate thelectronic ringer. Does anyone khow I can I wire a two-bell ringer from an extra Western Electric 500? desk telephone? There is much room for the ringer inside the plastic payphone. Thank you.
Mt grandmother has an interesting gizmo like that. Instead of the rotary dial phone noise it just chimes when the phone rings. It goes like this, "Ding, phone rings, dong."
Perhaps with your years of typing, you'd know not to use more than one period. Even the girls know that. For some of them, one period is such a hardship.
Hi i purchased a very old house an recently out of no where I have a brown box and it rings like an old phone. Opened it and it is an old bell system for telephones... but it keeps to ringing and I have no house land line connected? Any advice on how i can disconnect without damaging it?
You should call the phone company to have the line going into your house disconnected.. It was probably accidentally left connected when the previous owner left, or perhaps the service was never discontinued.. You can just cut the wire going to it without damaging the unit, or you can open it up and remove the wires from the terminals.. The former is probably easier if you're not familiar with this kind of equipment..
I know I'm late to the party, but this is the exact ringer I'm trying to hook up again from my old shop.
Sweet, thanks! I have one that's missing the cover. I want to make an enclosure for it so I can mount it somewhere outside. I'm gonna set up with a voip box as an intercom between back room and front of our shop. It seems to have enough power to ring the bells on other phones let's hope my unit works.
Thanks for letting me know.
My buddy owns a used car lot, They have one of these under the canopy on the outside of the building so that when the phone rings, it rings so if you are outside you will hear it from outside.
There used to be a local pizza restaurant that had one of these near the register to supplement their cordless phones.
Just bought an old home and there was one at my little farm on the outside of the house. The metal covering inside is stamped 1967. I kind of want to keep it.
Why not keep it?
That's awesome, it still works. Great job Jordan.
These were made very well, to last..
Hello. What power supply would/could be used to activate the bells without a phone present?
Originally it would use AC at 90 volts, 25Hz It will also work on lower voltages, like 20-30V, since the 90V is nominal and was realistically only available on the first few houses down the line. As frequency, you can use the 60/50Hz AC from your outlet, then however the ring will be faster. So any transformer outputting AC at 20-90 volts will do the trick.
Thank you, Jordan. Manyears ago I.nstalled the same ringer outside on the back porch - before we had cordless telephones. Connected ito a 24-hour timer so that it would only ring from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Just bought a Crosley 1957 Public Telephone replica athe thrift store. (Also coin bank. Coinsound a bell on the way down to the locked coin box!)) Hate thelectronic ringer. Does anyone khow I can I wire a two-bell ringer from an extra Western Electric 500? desk telephone? There is much room for the ringer inside the plastic payphone. Thank you.
Mt grandmother has an interesting gizmo like that. Instead of the rotary dial phone noise it just chimes when the phone rings. It goes like this, "Ding, phone rings, dong."
I don't think I've seen anything like that before, you should get a video of it..
You mean like a doorbell?
I just pulled 2 of these and the controller out of an old Rec center.
I see you've finally learned the difference between a modular phone cord and station wire.
Good..
You;d think with all those phones you'd have known that already a long time ago. So not that good.
"You;d" think with all those years of typing you;d have known there's a difference between ' and ;, so also not that good, maybe even bad....
Perhaps with your years of typing, you'd know not to use more than one period. Even the girls know that. For some of them, one period is such a hardship.
You do not use modular jacks on station wire.
I will use modular jacks wherever I want.
Hi i purchased a very old house an recently out of no where I have a brown box and it rings like an old phone. Opened it and it is an old bell system for telephones... but it keeps to ringing and I have no house land line connected? Any advice on how i can disconnect without damaging it?
You should call the phone company to have the line going into your house disconnected.. It was probably accidentally left connected when the previous owner left, or perhaps the service was never discontinued..
You can just cut the wire going to it without damaging the unit, or you can open it up and remove the wires from the terminals.. The former is probably easier if you're not familiar with this kind of equipment..
No dude don't disconnect it, hack it! If you really have an undocumented phone line then use it, place all the calls you want for free!!!
How many volts does that ringer run on? 48 or 24?
the ringer requires 48 v ac
hello how connected are you bells to the old restored phone ??
hello that doesn't make sense..
@@JordanU he means how did you connect the bell to the telephone
@@alexandersalarms5380 It doesn't connect to a telephone.
pulled number of them off the walls back in day..
It was built in the late 90s.
I installed telephones for 30 years, this was painful to watch.
YOU do not use modular jack on stain wire!!!!!!!!!!!
I will use modular jacks wherever I want.