Night Bell 1

[campyracr]

Situation: two companies used to use the same G3 switch. Now one is gone (cheers from the pleebians). The night bell(s) would ring in one location of the building for company A, and another location for company B. Now company A's night bell only rings in one portion of the building, however the bulk of employees are in the part of the building previously occupied by company b.

Issue:We want the night bells in the B area to ring for company A. I'm not even sure where to start.

 

[ken07734]

First: how are they setup? TAAS? off main AA?

If TAAS, then you may be able to half tap the other bell to the first one and they should all ring at once.

Same thing for AA.

 

[campyracr]

Good questions. How do I check? e.g. I reeally don't know where to start.

 

[Bobg1]

Check the night destination and from that numebr determine the ports that the bells are connected to. Then disconect the B bell and connect it to the same port as A.

 

[campyracr]

Bob1,

Not to sound like a complete retard...I am having difficulty tracing down the night bell. I have 5 vectors that relate to the attendant, 3 of which reference after hours. (I inherited this quagmyre)

a few reference (stations?) that don't seem to exist as stations, ann, or vnds so Lord only knows where the calls go when they hit that vector.

 

[ken07734]

try display console and look for TAAS port, this will be the port after hours if that's how they get it to the night bell. or if AA call it after hours and see what prompt and key you press to get the bell and find it in the vector scripts.

 

[campyracr]

Ken,
I tried "disp con" but could find no reference to TAAS. Since there are two pagepaq controllers with each one controlling a nightbell, would it make sense to jumper from the company A controller to the night bell on company B's controller?

 

[campyracr]

UPDATE I found the two attendants and their respective ports. (still no reference to TAAS?)

01Cxx11 is the port for the old company's attend console - "company B"
01Cxx12 is the port for the current remaining company - "company A"

There is wire punched down connecting a port and the working night bell, however it connects from "B company's" port to the jack of the A company's night bell. The A company's port is not connected to anything.

I tried punching a 2nd pair from B company's port to the jack of B company's night bell, so both bells are connected to the same port, but there is no ring on the B company's bell.

Any suggestions?

 

[SuperTanker]

First, If you type disp ten x you should see the detail on the tennant, including TAAS.

Second, both bells should easily run off the same port. You should be getting 48V on the port, more than enough to run two ringers.

Find the jack the night bell for company A, run wire to the same pair for the company B jack. strip & twist the cables & punch down on company A's port.

You should get the ringer to ring that way. Good luck.

 

[campyracr]

Thanks SuperTanker. That worked like a charm. I stripped the wire for the B bell and puched down, apparently, I didn't have a good connection. Twisting them fixed the problem right away.