Paging to loud speaker

[FoxIPO]

Hi,

I have an overhead speaker with amp working as an analog station in our warehouse. I also have a paging group setup to page everyone in the building and have added the analog station for the speaker to this group. It does not work when paging, I assume because the IPO doesn't recognize it as having a speaker phone. Is there a way to make this work so that when they page the group it will also page the speaker also?

Thanks.

 

[mforrence]

If existing is a "station level paging adapter" - (you ring the analog extension and it answers, connecting to amplifier - then it won't work as a member of hunt group. Will only work if analog station is configured as paging speaker and hooked into amp line-level input (with page adapter or isolation transformer in middle)
Mike

 

[FoxIPO]

Could you give me more specifics as to what specific pieces of equipment is needed to make it work that way?

 

[r6wraith600]

Have to hook an analog phone to the analog port you assigned as a paging "extension" then go off hook and reboot the control unit. Assuming if you haven't done that yet.

FoxIPO however has asked, explin your equipment a little more in detail if my suggetion doesn't make sense or work.

 

[1043]

What do you have between the extension port and the amp??

 

[FoxIPO]

I didn't install it so I'm not sure what it's called. I'll check it out tomorrow, it's in a different building.

Thanks.

 

[FoxIPO]

r6wraith600:

Is what you are suggesting a way to trick the system into working with my existing equipment?

 

[FoxIPO]

Hi guys,

I now have more information as to what I have now:
Bogen TAM B telephone access module
Radio Shack PA Amplifier MPA-50 outputing to 2 overhead speakers

Any ideas how I can make the paging group work with this equipment?

Thanks.

 

[gknight1]

you need to hook you power supply on the bottom pins of the TAM B for the power. then i think the set of pins in the middle are for the paging spearks/horns, then i believe you connect the phone system to the top pins. all the pins i am talking about on the TAM B should be labeled, i just dont have one in front of me to be %100.

 

[FoxIPO]

Thanks, I'll check that out.

 

[mforrence]

If the ONLY input to the amp is the IP Office (no background music, etc) - then you can remove the TAM B and simply use an isolation transformer between IPO station port and input to amp. If you want to use the TAM B - you'll need to reconfigure it as if you were using a "page port" from phone system. This will require power supply since you're no longer using an analog station port in the classic sense. Manual for TAM B can be found at:

http://www.bogen.com/products/pdfs/telephonepagepdfs/TAMBm.pdf

Mike

 

[aarenot]

http://tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1311744&page=1

Just a thread with multople links on paging. It should give you everything you need for information.