Re: Wiring a light to a phone

["Don" <kyham@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have a unit that connectes to the phone line and flashes a lamp in concert
with the ringing.

I will send it for the cost of shipping.  Not doing me any good collecting
dust.

It is about the size of a cigarette box with an outlet on the bottom and a
phone line to connect to the wall.

Nothing fancy but it works.


Don

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----- Original Message -----
From: "BruceR" <br@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Newsgroups: comp.home.automation
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 1:49 AM
Subject: Re: Wiring a light to a phone


> You'd blow the 12v lamp first time the phone rings, which it won't since
> the bulb will have shorted the line. A better way would be to use a 100
> volt neon bulb. Even better would be a plug-in strobe sold at your local
> Radio Shack.
>
>
>> I am trying to create a phone tha will light instead of ring. I have
>> an old rotary phone and have disconnected the ringer. I have a mini
>> 12v lamp with leads and am trying to wire that to a phone line. I
>> have a splitter from the wall jack so that one line will go to the
>> phone and the other to the light. Is it possible to wire the light to
>> the phone line so it lights up when the phone rings? If so what is
>> the best way?
>
>

<bonzo_drumer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1142305710.821525.55330@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I am trying to create a phone tha will light instead of ring. I have an
> old rotary phone and have disconnected the ringer. I have a mini 12v
> lamp with leads and am trying to wire that to a phone line. I have a
> splitter from the wall jack so that one line will go to the phone and
> the other to the light. Is it possible to wire the light to the phone
> line so it lights up when the phone rings? If so what is the best way?
>