Red phone

Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:54 am

Anybody have any idea where the traditional old "red phone" can be purchased?

If you're not familiar with it - I mean the old style phone with no buttons or numbers, just a phone and a red light. It's connected to another one and when you pick one up, the light lights up on the other.

They're often connected with either regular phone cord or sometimes a single XLR cable.

Any info would be great! Any substitutes of equal simplicity would be great too. Conditions are - it must be silent (or with a snip of a wire, capable of being silent) and minimal amounts of cords used to operate it.

Thanks-
J.

Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:13 am

You could hack two standard wall phones to do it. You'd need schematics though. I'm sure you could find an led that would light from the current a normal phone sends to a speaker.
How many handsets are you using? Like how many stations do you want on the intercom?
One will need to be powered. 15v bugger all amps.

Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:17 am

Yeah...I know. I just don't want to do a DIY on this. It's one of those things where it would be more expensive than it's worth.

As it stands, I'm already doing a DIY "Recording" light controlled by a switch from a remote location (that's an easy one though.)

These are available on the open market but every place I've checked just doesn't seem to have them (Bradley Broadcast, Markertek, etc.)

Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:26 am

I'm thinking a wireless intercom with visual call notification. No cable running, but you need power at both ends.
High noise generation though.
I'm looking and I can't find any intercoms that use handsets..

How many stations do you need?

Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:32 am

http://www.millionaireplayboy.com/toys/batphone.php
lol

Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:50 am

Love the batphone. Can't you just put a regular pnone under a cone of silence?

Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:55 am

Telex make some good stuff, I spoke to a lady who said to do this you would need...
2 * mrt 327 <--- Intercom station.
2 * hs6000 <---- handsets.
1 * ps15 <---- power supply.
Nfi on cost... She gave me a distributor with a phone number with no known dialing code.
Telex distributor in your area plus phone equals answers.

Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:36 am

Greener wrote:

How many stations do you need?

2

Think of it as a private, mobile talkback system with an indicator.

The more searching I do, the more I think it would be easier to just rig up an extra light on the "recording" indicator showing "put the headphones on..."

It shouldn't be hard.

Of course, if anyone has any other info....feel free.

The Telex stuff is great, but that's a bit more than I was hoping to spend.

So, my current "recording" light is a simple discected 'D' Battery mag light.

On one end, there's a box which holds the batteries, the switch and an XLR chassis mount plug. On the other end, there's a box with a red gel, the flashlight bulb and the receiving XLR mount. With the D battery setup, I can usually get a good 200' and still have it usable. I've thought about using AC power, but I hate needing extra outlets...

I suppose I could adapt the boxes to have 2 switches on one end and two lights on the other - one red and maybe one green. It shouldn't be hard.

Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 12:16 pm

Use an led system. Thousands of minutes.
Maybe switch a relay remotely rather than carrying the load through the wires for the switch. Thousands more minutes.
Or feet.

Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:06 pm

http://cgi.ebay.com/1950-INTERCOM-DIAL-TELEPHONE-PHONE-BATTERY-TOY-PLAY-SET_W0QQitemZ120267974763QQihZ002QQcategoryZ727QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Any good? My sis and I use to have a set kind of like this. I'm sure there are others around. This is kind of neat as well:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Terry-Phone-Intercom-Speaker-Telephone-Phone-Parts_W0QQitemZ230258345609QQihZ013QQcategoryZ38038QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I should probably learn BBCode.

Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 5:03 am

Here are a couple of sites you might want to check out,

http://www.headsetzone.com/telephone-handsets.html

http://www.choicehandset.com/

http://www.twacomm.com/catalog/dept_id_352.htm?utm_source=GGL&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=handsets&utm_content=Handsets&utm_campaign=Misc

http://www.ineedphoneparts.com/SearchResults.asp?Search=handset&Search.x=0&Search.y=0

TOA use to make a phone systems such as you are discribing but I am not sure if they still do.

Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 9:12 pm

I use a pair of AI phones in addition to the speaker intercom that can be seen on my website.

Here is the phone link:

http://www.aiphone.com/Product_Pages/Current_Products/ie-1ad.htm

Rich

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:14 am

Thanks -

That's actually exactly what I'm looking for.

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