Re: turnkey intercom solution?

["brobin" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

BTW, it's www.tmccorporation.com for more info.


"brobin" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I use a "KSU-less" phone sysytem to do that. Even if you only have one
>phone line it will work great. I highly recommend the TMC Epic 4000 or 4300
>phones. They'll do exactly what you want and more using only the same pair
>as the phone line so you'll still have that spare pair!.
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> <macapone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Hello,
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>> Throughout my house I have 4 pair Cat5e wire running; the builder used
>> it for the phone system.  I've tapped off two pairs at each wall plate
>> into a cat5e RJ45 keystone jack, and put a hub at the wiring closet,
>> thus giving me a poor man's throughout-the-house network (works
>> great!).  One of the remaining two pairs is used for the phone.
>>
>> This leaves one remaining pair (two wires) doing nothing.  So, my
>> question is, is there any turnkey solution that will let me use those
>> wires for a whole-house intercom / paging system?  My dream would be to
>> have little intercom boxes all throughout the house, presumably all
>> interconnected back in the wiring closet, so that you could walk up to
>> any of these boxes, press a TALK button, and say "honey, where are
>> you?"  Then Honey could respond, "i'm in the den!"  An eight-station
>> system would be ideal.
>>
>> If possible, I'd rather not use existing telephones for this.
>>
>> I would have thought this would be easy to find, but haven't seen any
>> viable solutions.  Can someone help me out?  I can do wire installation
>> (wiring up jacks, crimping phone plugs, things like that).  I couldn't
>> "build a circuit"; i've never touched a soldering iron and wouldn't
>> know a resistor if it bit me in the butt. :(
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>> MAC
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