Hi Allen,
> I don't know if this will be seen by anyone who can help, but I love my
> antique telephones... I love the sound of the mechanical bell... and the
> heaviness of the handsets.
Know what you mean :) I think I have quite a collection in the basement.. or I
did at least.. now I want to go down there and look Lol
> I have a box that lets my cell phone act as an inbound line on my POTS
> channels and it also gates my ip phone in as the landline... however there's
> not enough voltage to make my phones ring... and there's a box from australia
> that will take the rotary phones and read the pulses then dial out.
I'm not sure this page will help you, but maybe it or a link off it will help?
I see them talking about an H-bridge and voltage booster circuit for an arduino
device.. not the same obviously..
http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/5531/wiring-up-old-phone-ringer-
to-arduino
Here's another kind of strange page that might help:
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php/283831-How-to-make-a-phone-ri
ng
Bunch of weird articles out there :) This is the search I used FWTW:
google search: How to get enough voltage to make old phones ring from cell
phone?
> I love the sound of mechanical ringers though.
:)
Take care,
Janis
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