Re: DECT Ringer Madness

["Jon Wilkins" <jonpdwilkins@xxxxxxxxx>]

If I remember this stuff correctly.... (based on some googling I did 6
months ago when re-wiring my phone cabling)

I think the 3-rd wire bell signal is an unusual arrangement - used in the
UK, but not a lot of other places.
The cabling in from the openreach network is only 2 wires, the bell wire is
added at the NTE5.

Phones designed specifically for the UK will expect ring signal on the bell
wire, whereas plugging in phones not specifically designed for the UK are
likely to ingnore the bell wire & ring based on the 2 signal wires.

I'd guess your dect phone is not specifically UK designed, or maybe there's
a config setting buried somewhere in the menus.  How come the cheap ones
behave properly?  Perhaps a small UK-specific manufacturer or older design
"bought" from another manufacturer or the electrics/electronics
of using the
3rd wire bell may just be cheaper to make.

Can't see any easy solution to your problem though, other than using
something other than the panasonic as the ringer...

jon

On Dec 30, 2007 10:39 AM, Gareth Cook <g@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>   Here's a question...Ive been having issues for some time with
Comfort
> and
> the tel line and also the fact I wanted to turn off the ringer when in
> night mode.
>
> I spent an hour trying to figure out why the phone still rang, and
once I
> pulled the ringer cable from the master socket, I knew something was
odd !
>
> Ive got phones over cat5, using 586A.
>
> Turns out, my Panasonic DECT phone is creating it's own ringer - a
normal
> cheapy phone in the same socket wont ring, but this Panny will. Im
> thinking that perhaps this phone is also the cause of phantom 'calls'
and
> Comfort is picking up the telephone line thinking someone has called.
>
> I cant see in the manual about any self generating ringer...anyone got
any
>
> thoughts on this ?
>
> TIA
>
> G.
>
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