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Ed supply,Inc! Absolutely astounding what you have in that warehouse! I asked in the 'installer' forum, but I'll ask anyway. TIE 2040/3060 power supply? Need it for non-phone app. See post in "installer' if you are really curious! John C. (Not Garand)

John:

Yes, I do have some of those big blue bad boys. If you're serious, I'll check and see which ones they are.

Ed, if Tim doesn't want the yellow board, Matt might.

Hopefully it's on its way to me but now that you mention it Ken, I'll bet Matt will want one if he doesn't have one already.

I think I might also need a green board now, or maybe a purple, I'm not sure. I've got an Adtran TA 850 on its way to light up some more lines and (if I read the docs correctly) allow me to dial with the rotary phones. This was something that I wasn't able to do with the Digium TDM400P since apparently the guys that designed it decided that pulse dialing was dead. I don't fault them for this since pulse dialing was on its way out before they (or myself) were born, but somebody ought to think of the people who prefer phones with moving parts!

Anyway, since the TA 850 connects to the Asterisk box in place of the TDM400 and the purpose of the Asterisk box is to connect me to cnet so I can (hopefully) call things like Arthur's 701* and other (I don't want to use the word antique) less modern switchgear do the lines coming out of it represent CO lines (green board) or are they just PBX lines (purple board)?

*What news? Did it arrive safely from the left coast?

Green is for CO lines and you shouldn't need a purple it was for PBX. The green would just make it more "correct" if that's what you're going for. With just a few CO lines you could spray a 66 block and bracket green, just protect the pins. If you want to get real fancy you could pop the back off a block and dump the pins out, paint it and put it back together.

Got the yellow board and a bunch of 52A lamps from Ed last night, but didn't get them installed until this evening. Thanks Ed!! A gentleman and a scholar.

Post some pics when you get the rest installed!

Hi guys

I am new to this BB. I took one of these out of a site not to long ago. If i had known that someone was interested in this stuff I would have let him have it for the cost of shipping. For me it was to big and to heavy to use as a boat anchor, and besides it did not have a good place to tie a rope to it.

Good luck in keeping it running.

Hey Tim, did you get this all installed and finished? Looking forward to any pics you might have.

Jeff,

It's pretty much done, I just haven't gotten the motivation to pull the rest of the station cables. And I'm supposed to be moving into a real house soon so I'm not even sure that I should finish this before I move. After all, it wouldn't be operational for more than about a month before I'd have undo everything and pack it up.

It seems likely that I'll have a new (to me) house before I have 1A2 in every room. I'm optimistic that having a place to myself will make this a lot easier since I'll be able to work at hours more to my liking. Apparently, when you live in a townhouse the neighbors get cranky when you hammer-drill into concrete block at 2:00am.

Also, I did a dumb thing. I got a hold of some step-by-step switching equipment that has, since it moved in, conspired to take over my basement. (As an aside, I rent a house with some roommates and I live in the basement, see above). I'm now awash in 8" tall gray cans.

So in all likelihood, the next pictures you see will have been taken in a different room altogether. Hopefully a bigger room, far away from the water heater and furnace.