Can Nortel Door Phone Page Zone 4, 5 or 6 ?

[JBalzer]

We have recently set up a new MICS 6.0 phone system at my work.

We Presently have 4 buildings on our site, we refer to our shop and warehouse buildings by Building 1, Building 2, and Building 3 (The sequence in which they were built) I’ve also assigned them Page zones 1, 2 & 3. Since Norstar can have 6 page zones I assigned our office building as Zone 6. (We will probably build another shop in the future it would become zone 4) It all seemed logical at the time.

Here is the glitch: Our door phone at our office is only capable of paging zones 1, 2, 3 or none.

Does anyone know if there is any dip switches or jumpers inside the door phone or an other way to make it page to zone 6 if it is unanswered after 5 or so rings to its designated phone.

Thanks

JB

 

[curlycord]

No dip switches no, you might want to take a 7100 and loop the speaker leads from the 7100 to your zone 4 amplifier input or to a self amplified horn and assign that doorphone to ring the 7100.

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[jerryreeve]

Are your paging zones internal or external?

What kind of doorphone? does it have a dialpad?
Could it be that you lost a row of buttons on the dialpad? try putting a different phone on at the doorphone's port and see if that phone can page the correct zones.

If your doorphone is going thru an ATA try monitoring with a buttset and see if you can hear the digits being dialed.

JerryReeve
Communications Systems Int'l
com-sys.com

 

[JBalzer]

CURLYCORD,
So far I haven't added a PA system, But that, or the self amplified speakers would work.

I might just change the Page zones so our office is Zone 1, 2 or 3




JERRYREEVE,
It’s a Norstar Door Phone,
It only has 1 Button,
The MICS sees it as a 7208 set,
The programming is accessed by FEATURE 9*4,
The Norstar Door Phone is set up to call a particular set, if that set is not answered within a certain number of rings it then pages, PAGE ZONE 1, 2, or 3 and broadcasts a chime.
Any phones that you want to play the chime/page, have to be set to the same PAGE ZONE as the door phone.

I guess Nortel didn’t think it was necessary for it to page, zones 4, 5, or 6.

 

[jerryreeve]

Ya it looks like someone made a decision about how customers would want to work and built it into their design.

I wasent sure if you might have had an analog doorphone.

I have used the middle(headset) rj-14 on a 7208 and 7310 to drive a pa system as well as Overhead ringer. Note for you if you do go that route is that on the 7208/7310 the handset picked up conversations that happened in the room where the phone was and re-broadcast it over the overhead pa. I am not sure if a 7100 would do the same but it might be a good idea to disconnect the handset to ensure privacy. JerryReeve
Communications Systems Int'l
com-sys.com

 

[JBalzer]

JERRYREEVE,
That's a neat idea(PA plugged into the headset jack). I have a few 7208s with dead LCDs, they would work for that.

So, how does the Overhead ringer idea work?
Does the headset jack broadcast rings and pages?

JB

 

[jerryreeve]

What basically happens is that the output to the speaker of the phone goes instead to the headset jack, you hear, on the overhead, the ring that the phone would get. same with pages. if you have the phones to use it works great for making overhead zones that are cleanly interfaced into the norstar system. I didn't try it with the 7100's so let me know if you do what the results are, just ringing or paging also?

good luck
JerryReeve
Communications Systems Int'l
com-sys.com