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OT: any telephone tinkers here? :OT

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RRP
RRP Posts: 25,898
edited February 2019 in Off Topic
For personal reasons my wife and I still prefer land lines. We now have 2 base phones which have 5 wireless satellites. I want to keep one satellite in my work shop. Since I frequently might have some equipment or electrical tool running I'd like to convert that phone from ringing to instead triggering a flashing red light somehow.  I'm sure that some such equipment is available for the hearing impaired, but since this is wireless I doubt that equipment would work.  

Anybody have an idea how to do that?
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  • Photo Egg
    Photo Egg Posts: 12,110
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    You would need a phone jack in that room to activate the light going on/flashing. Then just turn off ringer on wireless handset.

    Thank you,
    Darian

    Galveston Texas
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  • RRP
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    Photo Egg said:
    You would need a phone jack in that room to activate the light going on/flashing. Then just turn off ringer on wireless handset.

    That's what I was thinking as well, but the nearest wire to a jack is 35 feet away.
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  • FlyOverCountry
    FlyOverCountry Posts: 665
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    What?
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  • HeavyG
    HeavyG Posts: 10,350
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    I'd be surprised if there aren't already wireless phone sets on the market that have some sort of "light trigger" for the hearing impaired.
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” ― Philip K. Diçk




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  • blasting
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    I'd check out what tech exists for the hearing impaired.

    Your post got me thinking... it's been 17 years since I had a landline.  I googled it, and you are not alone Ron.  As of last year, 40% of households still have a landline.  

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  • Carolina Q
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    If you're running a table saw, you'll be concentrating on that and probably won't see the light anyway. Just let 'em leave a message and call back. 

    I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

    Michael 
    Central Connecticut 

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  • RRP
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    Carolina Q said:
    If you're running a table saw, you'll be concentrating on that and probably won't see the light anyway. Just let 'em leave a message and call back. 
    I agree Michael, but the way my shop is set up I would have my back to the phone while using my most dangerous stationary tools of table saw, radial arm saw, chop saw and lathe. 
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  • HeavyG
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    blasting said:

    I'd check out what tech exists for the hearing impaired.

    Your post got me thinking... it's been 17 years since I had a landline.  I googled it, and you are not alone Ron.  As of last year, 40% of households still have a landline.  

    Still have a landline. Still get the newspaper delivered everyday.
    Not all the dinosaurs have died just yet. :)

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  • nolaegghead
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    Wish I could afford a satellite phone!
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  • xfire_ATX
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    HeavyG said:
    blasting said:

    I'd check out what tech exists for the hearing impaired.

    Your post got me thinking... it's been 17 years since I had a landline.  I googled it, and you are not alone Ron.  As of last year, 40% of households still have a landline.  

    Still have a landline. Still get the newspaper delivered everyday.
    Not all the dinosaurs have died just yet. :)

    Landline gone ~3 years ago when I gave that number to teen #2
    Just got rid of 'delivered' paper, still get it on my iPad app
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  • nolaegghead
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    ...and Ron has FIVE of them!!!
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  • WeberWho
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    My coworker always says, "How would I find my cell phone if I didn't have a landline?" 
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  • SGH
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    When I first read the title my hunch was that you was wanting to know how to make a fish shocker out of an old 5 bar phone. Atlas, I was mistaken.  

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  • Mattman3969
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    RRP said:
    Carolina Q said:
    If you're running a table saw, you'll be concentrating on that and probably won't see the light anyway. Just let 'em leave a message and call back. 
    I agree Michael, but the way my shop is set up I would have my back to the phone while using my most dangerous stationary tools of table saw, radial arm saw, chop saw and lathe. 
    So the light would only be usable a small amount of time?  I also have a woodworking past and in our cabinet shop no one was allowed to carry their phone. Too many dangerous tools that need full concentration.  I vote skip it.  Even if you don’t directly see the light you will surely notice some kinda flash.  All it take is a quick lapse and an appendage is gone.  IMHO 

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  • HogFather
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    What you do is ya buy these and then you drill a bunch on holes along the top of your handset. Wire them in a series and snip the wire going to the speaker to power them. When the phone rings it lights up.



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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 25,898
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    OK OK OK - no phone so no light advice needed! 
    Thanks for the responses anyway!
    Topic closed!!!
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  • thetrim
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     Just get a 750’ cord and walk around your house with the phone.  Problem solved.   Thank me lagern.  
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  • alaskanassasin
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    Hook it up to a bell
    South of Columbus, Ohio.


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  • nolaegghead
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    Rube Goldberg 
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  • DoubleEgger
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    nolaegghead said:
    Rube Goldberg 
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RBOqfLVCDv8
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  • lkapigian
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    My only landline and yes it works....check the number 

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  • JohnnyTarheel
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    Ron said this topic is CLOSED!!   =)
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  • HogFather
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    I told him how to fix it! What else does he want
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  • Botch
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    I've got a VOIP phone which is connected to my Wifi, but is also plugged into my house's "land line" system, with old-style phones in the basement and bedroom, and a "cordless" phone next to my easy chair.
    Don't know if that counts as a "land line", or hybrid, or what.  
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  • thetrim
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    I bet Ron owns a flip phone.  
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  • bgebrent
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    Nope
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  • RRP
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    thetrim said:
    I bet Ron owns a flip phone.  
    Yes, two of them to be exact! Both are in our two regular drivers in case of calling out for some road emergency.
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  • SGH
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    thetrim said:
    I bet Ron owns a flip phone.  
    I bet he owns the phone company =)

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  • thetrim
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    I still Ron runs lines like a Fahkin bossssss!
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  • RRP
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    thetrim said:
    I still Ron runs lines like a Fahkin bossssss!
    huh?
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