Old telephone wiring

[phonesaz]

This may not be the best place to ask this question...but if not please point me in the right direction.

I had to disconnect an old outdoor Allen tel phone and can't figure out how to reconnect it. It has a little block of wire connections on the back of the phone that connect the keypad. They connect with very small metal tabs that slide into connectors on the back, only the connection order makes no sense. I can get dial tone, but no keypad or ringer. Does anyone have instructions for these, or was there an industry standard for these phones? there are tiny letters next to the connectors such as RR, R1, etc. There is an amazing amount of wiring, but the phone itself only used the blue pair.

Needless to say, I tried to connect it the way I remembered it being and that didn't work.

 

[mikeydidit]

It sounds like the older phone is not reverse polarity guarded like the new ones are. Try reversing T&R ring and see if it works then. The old AT&T phones I used to have hear were like that.

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[SYQUEST]

What is the model number? Allen Tel made several outdoor units.

....JIM....

 

[phonesaz]

I called Allen Tel - they gave me the pinout, and all is well.

 

[wires]

all is well"

Well why don't you post the pinout? It is very frustrating to be searching the Internet for an answer at 3AM and find your problem only to find ________ as a solution.

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[AWGoodson]

On some of the older phones the keypad did the dail restriction so you may need a different keypad. Look for so little metal straps that may be cut. If you find some solder them back together.

Allan Goodson
Estimator
3D Datacom, Inc.

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