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**** Set Phone

jontar

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Hi

Does anyone know a good site to get a **** set phone (Test phone), a Harris, fluke, or greenlee etc, would do. Can't find very many sites (Canada or USA), and the few that have them want $250-450/ea.

I'm an industrial electrician so I would only use it a couple times a year, so don't want to spend that much, it would be different if i did VDV all the time.

Example was last time, we had a comms problem between a CTRL 5000 PLC and a RMC 150 and we needed to get an electrical eng to dial on a modem to RMC rack (we do our own PLC programming) and we had trouble as it was a analog line and most of our phones at the plant are digital, so we couldn't just plug a digital phone into an analog RJ11 jack. The VPN isn't connected to this cabinet, so in the end we went to the bix block and robbed a pair, but had to use DVM to see what pairs had 48v on them. It took hours compared to minutes if we had, had a **** phone, thanks.
 
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rlitman

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We used to make ours - 2 old analog handsets, 1(?) 9v batt (for mtg on one handset), some test lead and 4 clips.

We only phoned dead wires....

That works in a pinch, but the real deal, especially one with an amplified speakerphone, is a much more useful tool. You'd still need a banjo though, to plug into an rj11.
 
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kythri

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I have a rotary ****-set here at work. Wonder what I could get for this thing..

I just repaired the rotor mechanism in my old Bell System rotary dial set. :D

Now I just need to find a pulse-capable line to test it on.
 

Tarnished

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jontar: Just pick up an old analog phone from any yard sale. Wire it to a mod jack, and your in business. Bulky, but cheap! People forget that digital doesn't really have "dial tone". :)
 

jeffmoss26

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I have a Fluke TS30 that I use all the time, it works great.
I also have an old Premier touch-tone test set. It's sitting on the shelf but it also works fine.
 
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