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Re: Why do my rotary phones not ring?

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On Wednesday, October 30, 2002 at 2:52:57 AM UTC-5, george wrote:
> I have two old rotary phones that I purchased because I wanted that nice
> distinctive ring.
> But they don't.  They work fine.  Even nice that teh telco still accepts
> pulse dialing...  but they don't ring.  I've tried multiple lines at
> multiple places.  NO RING.
> This morning I stopped at a thrift store and bought a touchtone with real
> bells.  It rings.  So why don't the rotaries?

George this is a little late but many of the old rotary phones were set to ring on party lines.  If you have a 500 rotary look at the connections to the network block inside the phone.  On the back side of the network there should be 5 connectors labeled L2, G, L1, K, and A, respectively.  The older ringers had 4 wires, red, black, gray and red/gray.  The newer ringers had 2 wires, red and black.  The other two were for the capacitor inside the network.  The 2 wire ringers simply have the capacitor built into the ringer itself.  Anyway, if the black wire from the ringer is connected to the G terminal of the network the ringer is set for party line operation and will not work in today's private lines.  Move the black ringer wire from the G terminal to the L1 terminal and the ringer should operate.  Back in the old days before the modular connections the technician could make a party line phone operate on a private line simply by wiring the green and yellow wires together at the connecting block on the wall.  Electrically it is the same as moving the black ringer wire from G to L1.  Give it a try.

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