Rotary devices

[holymonkey]

After a recent site migration to an Avaya CM 5.2, g430 from an old key system some the "explosive proof, rotary phones" quit working. There is dial tone and the device call be called, but the rotary dial does not work.

Does anyone know how the analouge station needs to be progarmmed" I tried a 2500 and a few other types and no change.

Will this work or it it time to spend $3500 per unit?

 

[kyle555]

You should be able to. Can they call station to station? Or are you trying only to have them call the PSTN, and if so, with what kind of trunking? Various options have to be around, but if you just can't break dial tone, there is an "ignore rotary digits" field or something to that effect on the station form "change station 1234" that should at least get you calling station to station.

I'm far too young to know more about this, or what happens when you rotary dial from a phone out a PRI trunk - it would have to get translated to an ISDN D channel message, so based on that, I'd also presume dialing out an analog trunk there might be a translation to actually sending out touch tones by the PBX.

That all being said, I have taken the old type rotary phones from a flea market and used them. Mostly as an office prank to irritate people with ridiculously old fashioned loud bells ringing, but they were able to call out too.

 

[wmainc]

Use 500 or K2500 as the set type.

 

[holymonkey]

I'll give the k2500 a try. We tested the 500 and that did not seem to work.