Wiring Diagram Vintage Bell Telephone

Showing you how to connect an old bell western electric 1950s 3 wire telephone to a current home that uses only 2 wires.

Wiring diagram vintage bell telephone. The wiring diagram for a master lju socket is shown here. Generally the information in the library is limited to equipment that was made prior to 1980. You need some sort of circuit that will create a 20 hz sine wave square wave would probably also work that is amplified to 90v. You will also need a standard telephone a western electric 2500 suggested as your second phone you will see why later.

Visible wiring normally attached along the baseboard as in existing buildings where the walls and floors are finished. A look at a vintage bell systems ringer. Note that the pictorial view shown above only serves to indicate the two differing types of sockets and wiring connections. Search for the phone model and wiring or schematic eg.

Install wiring for an external telephone bell. Roy an external telephone bell is wire the same way a telephone is wired. You must combine the yellow and green on the old phone to get the ringer. Hilarysometimes its possible to adapt your phone by just by re wiring your old set with a new cablewires from a newer phone one made in the 80s or 90s and just replacing the connections inside the set with the newer cableunfortunately there may have been some modifications made inside the older set depending on the configuration it was designed for in its past partyline ringing.

I havent built it but it looks like it could work you would need a relay connected to the arduino to turn it on and off. Contrary to how it might seem c1 is connected to terminals 2 3 not 1 4. I have included a diagram of a western electric 302 one of the more common old telephones popularly known as the lucy phone because it was used on i love lucy and will use that as the generic telephone to test. There is a circuit on this page under telephone ringer.

There are two basic ways to install telephone wiring. Use 3 pair wire for concealed installation. Installing a modular plug for use on modern telephone systems and demonstrating it ringing. How to wire a telephone bell.

The phone cable is extended to the desired location where the telephone bell is to be mounted and then attached using the same method. Concealed wiring inside walls as in the case of a new construction or renovation.