Originally posted by MacOSX:
Bad short somewhere in the system?
Well it's got to be in the power supply itself,
since it blew the fuse when it was disconnected
from the rest of the system.
My parents actually have another phone system
that is not Toshiba-branded (Harris, maybe?) but
is compatible with the same phones. They bought
it just for the phones and mothballed the brain.
But its power supply looks completely different.
I doubt it uses the same connector, but what do
I know. I guess I'll go check to be sure.
I think you'd be best to replace it with a new or even newer used system depending on budget. Either way, I wouldn't think it to be economical to invest in repair or replace of that old of a system, much like newtecky said.
What kind of a budget do you have to work with?
Perhaps it won't survive the apocalypse after all, then??
It would be nice to upgrade to a newer system,
I think, especially if I've lost the programming
in the current one anyway. I don't know much
about these systems, though, so I'm not sure
of my options.
A digital system might be nice, or at least
one with caller ID. But then would I lose the
two doorphones? (They are wired with only two
conductors each, while the regular extensions
have mostly six conductors, a few only four.)
The wiring is 1985 telco wire, maybe not even
good enough for digital for all I know.
I'm not sure about budget. That ebay auction
for the DK16e system I mentioned above would
have been $450 or so, which includes 18 phones
and some kind of doorphone interface thing.
That seems reasonable, but I don't think
they'd want to go much higher than that.
I'd have to discuss it with them.
