[GreenKeys] Experience on this list

[Charles Ring]

I forgot to add that the new adaptor rings as well as a landline. Its 
wall wart is beefier than the old one's.



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The adaptor manual said max REN 5.0 but it wouldn't ring even one 2500
or any phone with a real ringer. "Tech support" didn't know what I was
talking about when i mentioned what the manual said but claimed my phone
from the 70's was too old! Manual said "any standard touchtone phone"
but my saying mine is THE standard touchtone phone didn't do any good.
All that was the source of frustration that could cause a stroke.

Later the adaptor started ringing the phone well enough unexpectedly. I
suppose a remote upgrade did it. When I added a second phone both rang
weakly but marginally well enough.  Later still the adaptor developed
other problems and was replaced. The new one did away with the bad noise
of the  original, improved sound quality both ways, and works with dial
pulse as well as TT. Now it is line 2 on my 1A2 key system and it even
returns dusconnect supervision to the key system, a pleasant surprise.


Don Robert House wrote:
> Charles Ring is having ringing problems... Hmmm
>
> Many of the VoIP convertor boxes only have enough ringing support for 
> up to 2 ringer equivalents.
> A WECo 300, 500, 1500, or 2500 as designed is 1 Ringer Equivalent.  So 
> you can have only two of these 40 year life cycle phones before there 
> is a chance that an additional phone will not ring.  The "modern 
> phones" with electronic ringers have much lower ringer equivalents, 
> such as 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, etc.
> You can usually tell if your box has a lower or higher ringing 
> capacity by the capacity rating of the "wall wort" power supply.  The 
> higher capacity boxes usually have a 24 or 48 volt supply with 1000 ma 
> rating.  Be suspicious of the units with a 12 to 18 volt supply.
>
> Good luck on VoIP.  I will stick with my old fashioned "land line"  it 
> works even when I have lot my electric power.
>
> Old Bell head,
> Don
> K9TTY
>
>
>
>
> On 17 Jun 2009, at 5:13 PM, Charles Ring wrote:
>
> I have had similar experience including Vonage tech support telling me
> "very authoritatively" that my Western Electric 2500 phone was "too old"
> to ring properly with their adaptor. Many other equally extreme examples
> of total ignorance with an air of authority. I and the rest of us have
> to be careful we don't get angry enough to cause a stroke during one of
> these calls and I am not kidding.
>
> 73 de W3NU
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