Meridian 616 extention wiring issue

[meterrepair]

greetings,

i am new to the forum. i have a background in electronics, 2way radio systems and computer assembly/repair. i worked in a factory testing and repairing among other products....Lanier telephone system equipment.

i am currently setting up a Meridian 616 system for my wifes Preschool, i have been quite successful sofar, i have set up 12 extensions with M7324's and programmed many of the details, i have set up a Doorphone on one extension, i have setup 3 Analog terminal adapters ATA2 (one for a ham radio interconnect, one for a old school Bell system payphone and the other for a fax machine) setup has been a positive educational expierence. once all the extensions are setup, i plan on installing a startalk flash, hopefully in ACD mode if it supports it.

my issue is this, im running an extension to a room about 100 ft away from the 616 box, i ran new solid 4 conductor wire (same wire ive run to all the other extensions. and somethings not right, any phone i hook to the jack, flashes all the LCD arrows, after about 10 seconds it will either stop flashing and fade out, or it will start flashing all over again. ive tried spare phones, and other phones that work on other areas, all the same. i have traced continuity on the wires, swapped the red/green for the yellow/black and ive even doubled up on the wires to see if lowering the resistance would help..all tries with no difference. at the phone jack i get about 16.4 volts no phone plugged in, and with phone i get about 15.8V
im using pair 16, yellow/blue extension #36

in my reading, the system can support phones on extensions over 1000 feet away from the box, so i would think 100 feet would be easy.

any ideas?

thanks,
john

 

[allworxguy]

It can sometimes 2 sets of "flashing" before the phone comes up. Have you tried another port on the system? That will verify your cabling. Most often this type of problem if the phone never comes up is wiring. Verify the wiring from the amphenol to your distribution frame, you may have a split pair (one wire from one pair paired with one wire from another pair) usually adjacent pairs.

Marv ccna

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Sales, Installation & Service for Norstar, BCM, Samsung & Allworx Serving Ottawa and Eastern Ontario since 1990

 

[bcmfiftyfan]

Try connecting a good working phone directly to the system with a test jack at the wiring frame to take the station wiring out of the picture. Try connecting the same phone that's failing to a different port at the backboard with a test jack.

 

[silver987]

How many extensions are working? It would flash if the s/w is only 4x8.

Wayne T

 

[hawks]

you said you have
12 of the 7324
3 ATA's
1 doorphone
that's 16 sets and that's all that system will do.

 

[curlycord]

Sounds like problem is with the 16th port....agree to test at the KSU before your cable.
And yes forget vmail, you would need an expanded CICS or a MICS to handle more ports.


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[meterrepair]

hi guys,

i tried what bcmfiftyfan suggested, i went right to the amphenol connector wiring and extension 36 does work there.
so i ran some new cable and it works now. doesn't make sense tho' i got continuity on the original wires in the room.

i should have clarified, i have 12 extensions total that include the doorphone and 3 ATA's so i have 4 spare extensions for voice mail and SMDR experimentation. from what i have read, for regular voicemail the startalk flash only needs 1 extention, but to operate as ACD it needs 2.... its a 1.7 with 2 phone jack ports, and the SMDR only needs 1 port and a serial printer. got the DR5DS in the 616 so the startalk should atleast do voicemail and the SMDR should work aswell.

questions to follow in new threads if i hit some stumbling blocks on them.


thanks for your replies.

john

 

[misseditbythatmuch]

At the risk of twisting this thread, do you plan to rely on any caller ID info? In your present configuration, the 616, even with DR5.x software, will not provide you with caller ID even though the software has caller info configuration options. To display caller ID info, you would need a C6 or M8 hardware module and one dedicated station port to pass caller ID data into the system. Where you are looking at ACD and SMDR features, your users may be a bit constrained by a lack of caller ID data.

 

[meterrepair]

caller id would be helpful, but the C6 and M8's are outside of my budget at this time. i will likely just run a cheap caller id box to the main phone to sit next to it for the short term and plug it into the first incoming line before the 616. when i can find a good deal on a C6 or M8, ill snag it up.