[SML] Making a phone ring and it's handset speaker work on stage

[dale]

I seem to recall that you can just plug in another phone to the tele-q and talk normally as the tele-q provides the talk battery needed.    But it's been a few years since I've touched one. 
Dale


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From: Steven Hood via Stagecraft <stagecraft at theatrical.net> 
Date: 9/28/16  12:37  (GMT-05:00) 
To: Stagecraft Mailing List <stagecraft at theatrical.net> 
Cc: Steven Hood <shood_td at yahoo.com> 
Subject: Re: [SML] Making a phone ring and it's handset speaker work on stage 




What about hooking it up to a
ClearCom system? Does the call signal generate enough to ring the phone?

Steven R Hood 


On
September 28, 2016 9:25:30 AM "Johnson, Philip via Stagecraft"
<stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:


We’re doing a show with a phone that needs to ring
on stage.  I have an old Tele-Q box that works so I can make the
ringer work.  Now the director would like to have audio from
 one of the other characters coming through the handset
speaker.   I have a pretty good idea of how to make this work but
I have a couple of questions of the hive mind to see if I have all bases
covered. If there is a device for doing this that would be the
 best solution.
 
4 wire phone cord.  
Red and Green to the phone to make the bell ring
etc.
I’m planning on using the black and yellow wires
to run audio to the speaker and reconfiguring the phone so the handset
speaker isolated to those wires only. 
 
Does this sound like a good
plan?
Tele-Q will only be used to make it ring, when
handset is pick up it stops the flow to the ringer.
Isolating the handset to the other lines should
keep the tele-Q and audio system separated
Do I have a danger of the 90vac from the tele-Q
and the audio signal running along the 4 conductor phone line
?
 
The Audio will be a wireless mic on the actor
(switchboard operator)
Wireless connected to audio console and
system.
Amp output of appropriate size and settings
running a line to the phone handset.
Running both signals through 4 conductor phone
wire
 
I’ve run audio to speaker phones before but that
was always through a separate line.  Should I run a separate line for
audio so the phone ring and audio don’t interfere with each
 other.
I’m also concerned 90v would do bad things to the
audio console so I may run a separate system just to feed the
handset.
This effect is only a couple of minutes long so
it’s a lot of work to make it practical.
 
Thanks for your advice
 
 
 
Philip  Johnson
Lighting Designer/Technical
Director
Department of Theatre and Dance
Texas A&M University – Corpus
Christi 
 


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