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Default Making a home telephone ring with battery?

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Frank Erskine wrote:
Did UK and US ring intervals. Used a mains to 6 volt transformer
the wrong way round to get the volts from the oscillator.


Allegedly it didn't work with a traditional 1000 ohm bell, but it did
ring it OK. It was better however with the newer 4000 ohm ones (and of
course modern 'sounders').


I changed the output transistors to handle more current.

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