Phone Engineers

[walshie 2,804]

We've got an old external bell/sounder attached to the wall outside which would be handy for hearing the phone when we're on the garden. Trouble is I don't know which wires to run to it.

 

The BT line comes into the house and only the green and green/white wires are connected to the socket.

 

Does anyone know what pair of wires would run the sounder and what points to connect them to in the socket?

[bullmastiff 615]

It won't work, the old phone bells are analog and new phones are digital.

You could probably knock one up by splitting the base for a cordless phone, plugging it into a socket and extending the wires on the speaker?

[stealthy1 3,964]

Blue Tooth it.

[Mr Wasp 187]

Unscrew the faceplate from the master bt socket.

 

On the back of the faceplate there are numbered connectors, your bell wire goes to pin 3 and 5

 

If your running broadband, you will need to buy an aftermarket faceplate with a built in splitter.

Cost is around a tenner for a decent one.

 

I replaced mine and my broadband speed jumped by a third.

Edited July 27, 2016 by Mr Wasp

[walshie 2,804]

Thanks lads. I'll give it a try like Mr Wasp says, but I suspect it won't work like Luke said. Possibly a new bell then and I HATE spending money.

[The one 8,512]

You wont be able to wire your two tin cans connected with string to a bell mate thought you would know that