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Hello,

If I'm posting this in the wrong forum I apologize. I have a payphone I recently purchased, and the man I got it from told me it's possible to hook it to my phone line at home by simply splicing phone line wire that would go into a jack at my home, to the interior hook ups in the phone.

I bought some phone line at Wal-Mart and opened it up. The wire colors are black, red,green, and a yellowish whitish color.

Here is a photo of my phones interior.

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/cobrabat/pinterior.jpg

The connections are on the right. Listed from left to right as

R, T, G, L1, BLK, RED

So if it is true that I can hook the phoneline to this to get the phone to work, what wires do I hook to where?

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Usually, payphones are designed to work with Ground Start service. Retired payphones are often converted to work with more common Loop Start service.

I've never worked on/with payphones, but this is how I would read the connections:

R=Ring
T=Tip
G=Ground
L1=?
Black & Red= (power?)

My question would be....did the seller convert the payphone to work with a Loop Start telephone line?


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Connect the red wire to R and the green wire to T and test.

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Dexman and Bob:

Thanks guys! I ended up hooking the red wire to the R and the green to the T and could make phone calls to my cell phone. I could hear everything, including the automated operator voice but the volume was very low. But the volume was real loud when dialing.

Is there anyway to up the volume a bit? Mine does not have volume control on the exterior.

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You'll need to provide power to this unit. Check to see if there are any markings to help you determine the input power requirements. Once you have this connected, it will likely work the way you are expecting.


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I see nothing in the phone that tells me anything about the power requirements. I do vaugely remember the seller telling me that you can hook up the power from the phone line to the phone by using one of the wires to connect to one of the R, T, G, L1, BLK, RED spots.

I have only two wires left. One black and another yellow since the Red and Green are hooked up to R and T.

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Never saw the inside, but the "real" payphones that I had at work were connected in the demark with red and green to the incoming line and both yellow and black twisted together and grounded. Never had any that required external power supply (not to say that that option doesn't exist)

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Chances are that it requires 12 volts DC based upon the "red" and "black" terminal description. Be sure to get a power supply that has about one amp output and observe proper polarity. If that doesn't work, you can try using a 24 volt DC power supply, but don't go any higher than that.


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