[Asterisk-Users] Terrible TICKING sound

[Jason A. Pattie]

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Anon wrote:
| On Thursday 13 May 2004 11:57 pm, Jason A. Pattie wrote:
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|>Steven Critchfield wrote:
|>| On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 17:33, Jason A. Pattie wrote:
|>|>Our problem ended up not being with Asterisk or Digium hardware.  It was
|>|>the analog cordless phone.  We simply have to live with it.  What
|>|>happens is whenever a connection is established and the phone is
|>|>off-hook, an LED on the base lights up in a "blink blink ..... blink
|>|>blink ..... etc." pattern.  Everytime the LED lights, a pulse is sent to
|>|>the phone.  It's especially bad when both lines are in use, as the phone
|>|>is a two-line capable device.  Then you've got double the pulsing.
|>|>
|>|>This may have nothing to do with your problem.  Just wanted to get it
|>|>out there in case anyone else runs into it, too.
|>|
|>| Sounds like your phone needs either a aux power source to power that
|>| led, or possible a little modification to clip that LED.
|>|
|>| I would make sure your cordless phone's power supply is within spec. If
|>| it is, Maybe you might want to look into one of the other comments a
|>| while back on the list about upping the power on the SLIC(?). You might
|>| be able to provide enough power to the phone to not cause trouble when
|>| it blinks the LED.
|>
|>Well, the phone is using the power supply that came in the box.  :)
|
| If the phone is old and had average or more use, the transformer in the
| "wall-wart" might be operating at less capacity than when it was new, and
| might not be adequate now.

Hmm.  It's fairly new.  Less than 2 years old.

| You can get a good, inexpensive replacement "wall-wart" from
www.jameco.com.

Neat website.

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Jason A. Pattie
pattieja at xperienceinc.com
Xperience, Inc. (http://www.xperienceinc.com)
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