Notwithstanding the "smiley" maybe we should send Hal an apology and send you a time machine and the names of a few qualified installers.
At the beginning of this fiasco, someone with experience, credentials and an authoritative voice should have disabused the owner from this hare-brained scheme. It's as though he decided to buy 40 bicycles instead a school bus. No professional phone guy whom I know would have allowed this to get this far.
No one has mentioned -- (I think... I, like Hal, cannot go back and read the whole painful story) -- the humongous sh*t storm that will ensue when just one of the "Made by Mattel" 4-line "phones for little people" goes wacko and takes down the whole building. Does each one require 4 AA cells? Replacing them will be a nice lifetime job for someone.
Who in their right mind (oh...wait...that's YOU) is going to go out and start pulling bridging clips on a Monday morning to get the office up again?
"Nightmare waiting to happen" should be the title of this thread.
