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Telephone Repair Illustrated [Illustrated] [Hardcover]

Stephen J. Bigelow (Author)
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April 1, 1993
Today, most people own their own phones, rather than renting them from the phone company. Many people own inexpensive electronic telephones that are notorious for being unreliable. By being able to fix your own telephone you can avoid the monthly "line maintenance and repair insurance" that the local telephone companies try to sell all their customers. This means you can save much more than the cost of the book by being able to avoid these charges.

This guide will take you through beginnning and intermediate levels of telephone repair--including how to work on answering machines, cellular, cordless, electronic, and classic telephones. It also guides you in using test equipment, multimeters, logic probes, oscilloscopes, and specialized equipment.



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About the Author

Stephen J. Bigelow (Leicester, MA) is the founder and President of Dynamic Learning Systems, a technical research and writing firm specializing in PC and peripheral service. An experienced electronics engineer, he is the author of several best-selling computer books including Troubleshooting, Maintaining and Repairing PCs, now in its fourth edition and is the editor of The PC Tolbox Newsletter.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 219 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics; 1 edition (April 1, 1993)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0830640339
  • ISBN-13: 978-0830640331
  • Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.6 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,247,592 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Basic information for the do it yourselfer., February 23, 1997
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Along with an index, glossary, bibliography and schematics,
this will help someone troubleshoot a problem with their
telephone, cordless phone, or answering machine. Basic
information.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Good material, December 24, 2007
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This book told me what I needed to know. I wanted to be able to troubleshoot some old telephones. I collect old payphones and had a few that didn't work. They do now. I rate the book highly.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Useful, February 22, 2010
You will be interested in this book if you:
o Want to learn the basics of how to repair or perhaps modify telephones.

This is not suitable for anyone who:
o Needs a text to pass apprenticeship or trade qualifications examinations;
o Has no background in electronics.

It's a brave person who repairs their own telephone and your telco contract or local laws and regulations may forbid you to do this unless you are a qualified technician. This will be useful, however, for the hobbyist who wants to experiment with telephones. Warning: never connect telephones that you have repaired or modified to the public switched network or use the network to conduct experiments. Your telco contract and local laws will prohibit this as it can result in shocks or injury to linesmen and damage exchange (US: "central office") equipment.

Basic techniques are shown along with instructions on how to use instruments for analysis, but there is so much variation in manufacture that this can only be very general. Hobbyists are advised to seek out the datasheets of the ICs used in any phone they wish to repair. My own experience is that many electronic phones use Chip-On-Board technology which makes them impossible to work with, but good luck anyway.

Topics covered include repairs to:
o Vintage telephones
o Rotary dial telephones
o Electronic (push-button) telephones
o Cordless telephones
o Answering machines (tape and digital)

There is a chapter on mobile (US: "cellular") phones, but this refers only to outdated analogue types no longer in use.

This is a 220 page trade paperback, of the high quality typical of TAB.
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THE PUBLIC TELEPHONE SYSTEM HAS SOMETIMES BEEN REFERRED TO AS THE eighth wonder of the modern world. Read the first page
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modular receptacles, retest the machine, hook switch contacts, use your multimeter, pulse dialer, electromechanical ringer, classical telephones, speech network, electrodynamic microphone, set your multimeter, rotary dialer, suspect telephone, ringing cadence, handset cord, logic probe, incoming ring, pulse contacts, ringing signal, mute signal, dial unit, digital signalling, transmit circuit, speech circuit, tone decoder, electronic telephones
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