Re: Entry phone door release - PAL WinTec

["Bob La Londe" <nospam@xxxxxxxxx>]

Look up "DoorBell Fon" by ANAC.  They have been selling a unit that does
this for atleast ten years.  I have a couple on the shelf in the shop.

"PeterD" <stillcentre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Pal WinTec offer a neat entry phone system.  It introduces a ring
> tone, from a visitor pressing a button on the door panel, to all
> ordinary phones in the house including cordless ones.  You can then
> answer it and talk to the visitor, and activate the door lock release
> if you want to let them in.  It can work with more than one door eg
> front door and back door, using their PAL 102 system.
>
> At least, that's what they claim.  But their documentation is poor
> (the only detail is in Hebrew, not English!) and the system expects
> telephone wires to be only a single pair, ie 2 wires, and does not
> provide a standard plug to take the incoming phone or to output to the
> cordless box.  Here in England, all the phone lines end with 4 wires,
> and don't seem to work with the WinTec 2-wire assumption
> - any advice on how to connect them would be very welcome!

4 wires?  Are you sure they actually use 4 wires?  The standard was to
provide 4 wires for ages, but here in the States we only use 2 wires for
most applications.  Not at all sure how you Atlantic islanders implement
telephone, but most modern phones only use two wires.  Some ancient 2 party
lines used three.  Line on 2 and tip to ground and ring to ground for
separate ringing voltage.  Not sure maybe some weird form of ground start
line with a separate ring to ground?

There are some UK techs that visit this group once in a while.  Maybe one
can take the time to educate us.