OBi200 With Kellogg Redbar Phone
drgeoff:
Quote from: TheBaconBaron on November 02, 2018, 08:46:06 am
When I pick up the receiver, I hear nothing. I was avoiding poking around on the internals of the phone until I got more advice from folks who know more about this than I do :)
A non-faulty OBi always gives dial tone to an off-hook phone. Doesn't need any configuring, nor even an ethernet cable plugged in to give dial tone.
So until you prove that the phone is working you can stop trying to get things working by messing with the OBi.
TheBaconBaron:
Well I went digging through the innards. It looks like the phone has been serviced a few times, and the most recent time it may have been given up upon. The four wires of the rotary dial weren't connected to the chassis. Fortunately I found this forum post and schematic: http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=14243.0
I followed the diagram to reconnect the dial (although the wire colors were different than the schematic). The phone came back to life, the dial tone works, it can receive a call, and the ringer still works. Now we'll wait for our pulse to tone adapter to see if we can make outgoing calls :)
Thanks for the advice everyone!
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