| Joined: May 2001 Posts: 1 Member | OP Member Joined: May 2001 Posts: 1 | This might to be too obscure but... I have an old western electric 500 series rotary phone I want to use. I've got it wired so it has a dial tone but there is no ring when anyone calls in. Inside the phone is a terminal with 5 screws One one side coming out of the phone itself are black and red wires. The ones from the jack line are yellow, green, red and black. I've got black going to black at terminal 1 red to red at terminal 2 Green going to empty terminal 3 and yellow going to empty terminal 4 terminal 5 has no wires. There are also a gray and gray/striped wire coming out of the phone on the other side of the terminal. The gray wire is attached to the terminal with the green jack wire and the gray/striped wire is attached to the terminal with the two red wires. If anyone has understood this and can tell me why I'm not getting a ring when called, and where the wires should be going, I would be very, very appreciative.
thx, basil p | | | | Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 577 Member | Member Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 577 | are the wires from the ringer hooked to anything? | | | | Joined: Jul 2001 Posts: 23 Member | Member Joined: Jul 2001 Posts: 23 | Probably wired to ground for the ringer. Find the Capacitor and move from yellow(?) lead to red. Your going back a long way, hope my brain cells still work that far back! <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by openwire: are the wires from the ringer hooked to anything?</font> | | | | Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 89 Member | Member Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 89 | Basil, try this site, it has wiring diagrams for old 500 sets https://users.loa.com/~boba/bellphone.html | | | Forums96 Topics94,273 Posts638,989 Members49,424 | Most Online5,661 May 23rd, 2018 | |
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