Hello all,
Long-time listener, first-time caller (hah, no pun intended...really).
Got an MICS 4.1 system we need to hook a VMI up to, which we will be using as a 2-port ATA. I bought one off of eBay that was supposedly pulled from a working phone system last year and then sat on a shelf for several months before I bought it.
I can hook it up to a KSU port and see the new feature code to program it come on-line. I can talk to it at F9*3 and on the F9XX feature code it allocates for itself. I can dial its extension # and hear the ringtone in the phone handset I'm dialing from. So the MICS is aware of its presence, and it is responding properly.
But I cannot, for the life of me, get an analog handset/FXO device to "work" on the VMI. When I ring the VMI's extension, the phone attached to the matching analog port does not ring. If the phone connected to the VMI goes off-hook, I hear no dialtone (which I should, according to page 4-4 in the manual).
I'm worried that, in a past life, some doofus plugged the KSU line into one of the FXS ports and fried something.
Does its behavior indicate to you all that this VMI unit is most likely physically defective, or am I missing something really simple here?
Thanks, everybody!
-- Nathan
Long-time listener, first-time caller (hah, no pun intended...really).
Got an MICS 4.1 system we need to hook a VMI up to, which we will be using as a 2-port ATA. I bought one off of eBay that was supposedly pulled from a working phone system last year and then sat on a shelf for several months before I bought it.
I can hook it up to a KSU port and see the new feature code to program it come on-line. I can talk to it at F9*3 and on the F9XX feature code it allocates for itself. I can dial its extension # and hear the ringtone in the phone handset I'm dialing from. So the MICS is aware of its presence, and it is responding properly.
But I cannot, for the life of me, get an analog handset/FXO device to "work" on the VMI. When I ring the VMI's extension, the phone attached to the matching analog port does not ring. If the phone connected to the VMI goes off-hook, I hear no dialtone (which I should, according to page 4-4 in the manual).
I'm worried that, in a past life, some doofus plugged the KSU line into one of the FXS ports and fried something.
Does its behavior indicate to you all that this VMI unit is most likely physically defective, or am I missing something really simple here?
Thanks, everybody!
-- Nathan
