On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 18:38:47 GMT, (Scott Lurndal)
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On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 15:09:44 GMT, (Scott Lurndal)
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jaret smith writes:
On Thursday, July 18, 2019 at 10:44:47 PM UTC-7, wrote:

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Before I went any farther I would find someone with a POTS line and
try it there. If that works your VoIP adapter is the problem. If
everything else works you might have to live with an electronic
ringer.

i got the Telephone Module Pulse Transfer Dual Tone Multiple Frequency DTMF=
Converter. The phone dials out but it wont rind when someone calls me, wh=
ats wrong and what do i have to do?

If it is a western electric model 500 deskset, the ringer may be disconnected
or connected in party-line mode. Look around on the internet for WE500
wiring diagram.

It may also be that the voip adapter doesn't provide sufficient current to
drive the ringer.

You get around the party line thing by connecting the green and yellow
together.

That's not precisely correct. You remove the shell of the phone and
move a connection on the terminal block from one terminal to another.

The yellow and black wires (on the modern POTS side) are N/C.

Red and Green (Ring and Tip) are the only wires connected.

https://www.beatriceco.com/bti/porti...hones-500.html

Scroll down to "do you have a model that doesn't ring".

A rotary dial phone would have had a 3 wire line set, red, green and
yellow. The 4 wire line set came with the Princess phone.
"It's little, it's lovely and it lights". (via a wall wart that put
voltage on the yellow and black for the light bulb)