Questions tagged [telephone]
A telephone, is a telecommunications device that converts sound into electronic signals suitable for transmission via cables
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I want to connect an input and output to my Bluetooth headphones [closed]
I would like to connect my desk phone to my Bluetooth earbuds. I can unplug the cable from the handset of the desk phone and I can find a one way Bluetooth connector so I could listen to the output ...
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Projects for 1940s rotary phone [closed]
I'm in the UK and we're about to (finally) get our line set up for our landline phone.
We have a few old phones we're going to use, mine is a black 1940s phone, the other is a 1970s one. They both ...
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What component could be
I have a VDSL telephony socket with some electronics in it. I reverse engineered the PCB, but there is one component I cannot identify at all. Look like a 0.25W TH resistor, light-blue body and a ...
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How to translate from voltage in a circuit to a command on a phone? [closed]
Basically, what I am trying to accomplish is getting my phone to make a call (to a specific number, say, my brother's), when a certain voltage threshold is exceeded. However, I have no clue how have ...
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15 W USB ports in car [closed]
My car has two 15 W USB C ports that will fast charge my phone, but they are not powerful enough to super fast 2.0 power my phone (S21+). Is there any kind of device that would take the two 15 W ...
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How does a UK analogue telephone detect that the caller has hung up (disconnected)? [closed]
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This is a question regarding the design of UK analogue telecommunications equipment and the consequent design impact that is necessary for a router duplicating those signals. It is asked so ...
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Can i safely use RJ11 and 24 guage wiring for hobby leds?
I would like to supply power to a bunch of LEDs (a dozen or so) on a model train layout. I would like each light to be modular, so I could easily unplug a building and replace it, etc. The LEDs are ...
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What is the reason that this RJ11 cable can't be connected to this socket? [closed]
I connect one end of this RJ11 to my router's WAN port, and I connect the other end of it to a 3-pin plug, and I connect that 3-pin plug to the phone jack, but when I try to connect the RJ11 cable to ...
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What is this part in a “retro” phone?
I’ve got a recently manufactured “retro” landline phone that I wanted to scavenge some parts from, made in 2012 I think. I’d like to be able to do something with the ringer, which appears a lot ...
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Disable ring on land line phones
Years ago I bought a device at Radio Shack that disabled ringing on household phones. It was a very small box with a modular receptacle on one side, a pigtail on the other with a modular plug, and a ...
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Solar lamp/phone charger output current too low for modern phones
I am building a solar lamp/phone charger following this page, with the circuit here below.
I have two 18650 batteries in parallel. The charger module is the usual TP4056 taking 5 V input, and limited ...
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Three-wire old phone to RJ11
I'm trying to connect an old phone's three wires (white, red, green) to my home line VOIP-4-wire (black, red, green, yellow) but I don't know where or what to connect.
I have read this:
How to ...
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Phone battery charges linearly [closed]
I think this is probably a bit basic, but I've tried googling and have posted elsewhere.
The question is vey simple. I've recently bought a new smartphone, with a standard lithium battery. Every other ...
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Solve this puzzle: Car lighter port blowing phone battery [closed]
I brought my Jeep in for work, and the mechanic let it die.
When he jumped it, he somehow blew my amplifier. He was able to fix that.
A few days later, I plugged my phone into the car lighter port and ...
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Connecting 4P4C RJ9 Headset to 3.5mm pc port
I have a Plantronics CS520 Binaural headset that I'm trying to connect to my PC instead of a desk phone.
I'm using a TRRS with T connected to speaker+, R disconnected, R connected to Mic, and S being ...
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As a child I licked a landline telephone cord plugged into the wall
As a child I licked a landline telephone cord plugged into the wall.. It felt like it physically moved/shot me backwards.. Could this have happened or was it just a sensation from getting electrocuted?...
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Analog telephone circuit and TEA1062 [closed]
I am currently working on an analog telephone project.
I have some questions.
ICs and Central are below:
Central: KX-NS500 (gives 28VDC)
DTMF receiver: MT8870
DTMF generator: HT9200B
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Choosing a replacement electret microphone
I'm trying to select a suitable replacement electret microphone for an analog (POTS) phone. The existing electret is completely unmarked so I don't know its part number or parameters. I'm not well ...
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5G and aircraft? [closed]
I just read the statement of a company,
"We are frustrated by the FAA’s inability to do what nearly 40
countries have done, which is to safely deploy 5G technology without
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Driving two bell coils from an old phone with 90 V, 20 Hz AC
I have an old phone which stopped making calls, but the ringer still worked. I used a phone ring generator that generates 90 V, 20 Hz AC to test this. I want to place this ring generator inside the ...
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Telephone headset adaptor weak microphone and speaker sound
I have made a simple adaptor for a telephone P4C4 -- RJ9 -- separate headset output (The wiring diagram of a telephone handset can be viewed in this wikipedia article) to two TRS jack for an ordinary ...
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Make a faux call on old 1950s touch tone phone [closed]
I have a 1950s ice cream shop and just bought a vintage touch tone phone. It works if I connect it to a phone line but I won't be doing this. What I really want to do is pre-record messages that will ...
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What does GSM 900/1800 mean?
I was looking at old Nokia 3310 phones, which have GSM 900/1800.
I did some research online from a government website, along with some Google searches, to understand what GSM 900/1800 means. I got a ...
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How did phone networks do switching in the days before programmable ICs?
How did phone companies and companies that made PBX's do switching with discrete logic or simple, non-programmable ICs?
The caller would type in a number, so the system is receiving a sequential code, ...
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What do you call the yellow and black conductors in domestic telephone wire?
Any wannabe telco guy can tell you that the green and red pair are called "tip" and "ring" respectively, most can tell you the historical reason why. That's not what I'm looking ...
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Replacing phone battery with power supply
I have an old phone (nexus 5) that I want to use for a project. I need to replace the battery with a permanent power supply, I've found the 3 pins of the battery and made a breakout connection with 1/...
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identification SMD 3 Pin 3x1.5mm code 4B C39 for stereo camera
I am trying to build stereo camera using android or iphones. The pcb is from a wired selfie stick and works well. By using 2 pcb's with one push button, simultaneous photos can be taken. I have looked ...
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Two phone batteries connected in series not working
I have two, fully charged, 3.7V standard Nokia phone batteries, that I want to connect together to use as a 7.4V battery, I connected the (+) of one to the (-) of the other, and then tested it but it ...
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Is it safe to wire a telephone to a breadboard?
I am trying to connect a hardwired 2554 telephone set. There's only a few inches of slack wire coming out of the phone since it appears it was just cut there. I managed to get about half an inch of ...
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Convert 60V AC 50Hz to 60V AC 25Hz
The setup is a 240V 50Hz AC transformer outputting 60V 50Hz AC. Connect this power supply (with a push button) to an old telephone and it rings the bell on command, but unrealistically fast.
I need to ...
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How does this telephone circuit eliminate the sidetone?
I know that the sidetone in telephones is removed by a hybrid transformer or by differential amplifier using an op-amp.
I don't know how this circuit does the job using just 2 transistors (I took the ...
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Providing phone line current for direct modem-modem communication
In order to directly connect two modems without a real phone line, one option is to put a battery inline (to create the current loop?). Most information I've found about this relates to the SEGA ...
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Is GSM full-duplex?
GSM uses FDD (frequency division duplexing) and provides separate channels for uplink and downlink.
I found however, in this link, that the mobile station does not receive and transmit at the same ...
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How were four wires replaced with two wires in early telephones?
In this video, when A wanted to talk to B, a microphone was connected to a distant speaker using two wires (A → B).
When B talked to A, a copy of above was used in the other direction (B → A) using ...
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Need help Identifying a resistor like component with orange and black bands
This component was on a telephone that was mistakingly connected to the mains rather than the phone line. Any help would be appreciated!
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Data rates for each user in ADSL with discrete multitone technique
I read about MODEM technology from Forouzan's 'Data Communications and Networking'. Under ADSL technology it was said- The modulation technique that has become standard for ADSL is called the discrete
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Leaky Bucket Example
I have an image below of a leaky bucket image that I am trying to understand for my telecommunications class, and I was hoping for some guidance/verification if my train of thought is on the right ...
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How was the first overseas phone call possible back in 1927?
I was watching the Peaky Blinders TV Series when something triggered my curiosity: If there were no satellites, nor underseas cables, how come the characters were making overseas phone calls?
After ...
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How does ISP cut the customer's internet access technically?
We know that if we fail to pay our internet bill then our internet access will be cut. But how does the ISP technically cut the access?
For wired internet, do they just shut down the port where the ...
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About live telephone line voltage
I have a question about the telephone line voltage.
When I make a short for 12 volt I see the spark and heating, my question is why I can’t see anything (spark, heating) when I make short with the ...
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How could landline telephone service cause fire alarms to activate?
Someone I know informed me that their home’s fire alarm is occasionally triggered when he uses his home phone (landline). His alarm system company stated that they do not know why this occurs. They ...
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How does a "pulse dialer" (e.g. IN9151) internally work?
I'm wondering how a so called "pulse dialer" like the IN9151 (https://www.digchip.com/datasheets/parts/datasheet/237/IL9151-3N-pdf.php) internally works, meaning how it is achieved to ...
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Can lightning strike into the phone line damage electronics in the house through the ADSL modem?
I was always wondering about the following:
If lightning strikes directly into the phone line outdoors, can the excess power coming from the phone line jump over the switching power supply of the ADSL ...
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How can you tell, remotely, if someone put their SIM card in a new phone? [closed]
On a recent television show, on ID Discovery, 'The Case that Haunts Me' (season 3 epi 4 'Cruel and Unusual') the lead detective finds out that the prime suspect has taken the SIM card out of his phone ...
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How to dial a phone number via DTMF tones?
I want to dial a phone number on a landline with DTMF tones generated by my phone. I tried soldering a 3.5mm audio jack to a phone cable and using my regular phone app, but nothing happened.
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Make old telephone ring
I recently found one of those old rotary dial telephones in my garage and amazingly it still is fully functional (I tested it by hooking it to the phone line). As I have no use for it as a telephone ...
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How to discharge a dead phone? [closed]
About a week ago I have taken my phone (s7 edge) off the charger, used it for about a minute, the phone turned itself off and the screen went black. I have tried turning it on, nudging the battery by ...
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Turn On Relay by Phone Line Power
I have two corded phone lines that I want to connect both of them to one telephone device. The phone must be connected to line 1 by default, and it switches to line 2 when it rings. I made a simple ...
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Can phone flashlight damage my camera sensor
I have an s20 ultra and today i wanted to investigate on how are then cameras set up. So i got another phone and pointed it s flashlight to the s20 ultra cameras . The phone was closed. Did i damage ...
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Extracting speaker, microphone and hook signals from a two-line telephone
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I'd like to use a 'normal' telephone as an audio and switch interface for a project. I want to design a circuit that has the telephone A and B wires on one side (ie. an RJ-11 socket) and has ...
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