old bear where are you?

I posted a couple of years ago and you helped, but I lost the info. I have 2 old western electric dialless phones a 553a and a 653a i would like to set them up to use as an intercom type situation. could you please help me out??

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chip
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Easiest solution would be a simple Radio Shack 24 or 18 volt DC power supply on the tip and ring of the phones and a small 12 volt DC piezo buzzer on the spare pairs with a pushbutton to "ring" it.

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DTC

The elegant solution is to use a Viking DLA-200B ringdown.

TerryS

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Terry

they both have ringers in them, the old bear gave me a solution a few years ago, I just lost it Chip

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chip

Well you could use ringers, but its not so easy a solution. You'd need a 90 VAC power supply and a way to detect ring trip to stop the ringing or feed it on the spare pairs), then a balanced 24 VDC feed (although you could get away with a ground sided one).

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DTC

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