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I've always used my teeth for stripping.

Well, until I was 14.

i am a bit like jeff, my hobby has always been phones, i until a week ago even refused to carry a cell phone but due to family with health issues i picked one up. A phone in the john is just over the top to me. When i was 15 i had about 10 phones in my parents house but NEVER did i have one in the john! i was shocked though visiting model homes here in montreal and a phone jack in the bathroom is now a big thing :S

when I was in my teens and on it wasn't quite legal for anyone but telco employees to have anything to do with phones
(not that that stopped me )

when there was a phone issue and we had to call them out , it was quick, which phone is it again we rent and which ones do we have to hide ?

what extensions are legal and which do we have to disconnect and hide the wire ?

Aah yes, the good old days (before my time!)

Hmmm...

Well, I better not mention there's going to be one in EVERY bathroom (3). So far:

Living room: 4

Basement: 2 (1 1A2, 1 single line in the bedroom, soon to be a 1A2). When the basement gets finished, there will be 4 1A2's in the rec room.

Kitchen: 1 standard rotary wall phone now, will be adding a cuckoo clock soon. And the standard phone is staying.

Dining room: 1

Garage: 1

Office: 1 1A2, 1 speakerphone.

Also gotta find weaherproof ones for each deck level (2).

And this is just off the top of my head. My goal is 30 phones, but probably will be around 25.

They've been running for a couple weeks now; and I'm surprised at the conveinience. Something about being able to walk a few feet (or in the case of the living room, reaching a few inches, no matter where I'm sitting) anytime the phone rings really appeals to me. Laziness, whatever. And I hate portable phones. They get lost more than TV remotes. Cell phones have always sucked. And to you young whippersnappers who don't even have copper to the home anymore: SHAME ON YOU!!!!

And I've not used the one in the john once; maybe never will. But, here's a scenario: Ever been in the john and discover (too late) there's no TP? When you had guests? I suspect it won't seem over the top then.

You simply can't have enough phones. It's unpossible.

Matt -

At some point you may need lamp extenders, as the capacity of the fuses on the 584 panel may be exceeded. I don't remember what the limit was but I think 30 might just put you over the top.

I only installed them once and that was on a system with about 70 appearances.

Sam

Yeah - the manual says 20 lamps.... what's a lamp extender, is it some sort of higher capacity power source?

Thanks
Matt

Also,

I bought this:

https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290181433471

I thought it was an extender to be able to add more cards (all my slots are full), but after googling I'm not so sure. Any ideas?

Matt:

You really can't use that for much of anything. It's just a 13 line panel designed to mount on a 23" rack. It requires all kinds of external connections and a separate power supply to function. I have the racks, 75 pair cables and power supplies available if you really want to stick with it, but that's a lot of work. If you are a glutton for punishment, I can hook you up.

A lamp extender, at least the most common one was a 66M1-50 block with electronics built into the base that would allow you to feed the LG/L for several lines into it and get more lamp driving capacity out of it. It requires a separate 10 volt AC input to drive the additional lamps. The only ones I ever saw were made by Harris/Dracon.

In your case, your cable runs are relatively short and you don't have a lot of traffic, so you may be able to push the limit a bit with your current system. Remember that it's engineered for six lines and twenty stations with full traffic, so a handful of extra sets with only a few lines shouldn't be a problem.

I am curious, how many phones can your 601 KSU support?