How do I make this ring? Inside the bell is alot like my old doorbell. It has copper coil that drives a ringer (ya know, with electromagnets/opposite poles, that thing) which moves horizontally and strikes both sides of the bell. I just wanna give it a battery and a switch amd make het ring . Hang on, trying to post the picture...
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I would imagine those yellow wires come out would be the only way to activate that coil. Here are 3 pics. All with the metal part of the bell taken off. One showing the topside of the bell mechanism, one showing the bottom of the bell mechanism and s close up if that switch. the switch has 4 wires. red and green from the telephone line, black from the battery and one of the two yellow wires coming out of the bell
mechanism.
https://imgur.com/a/jP3BMmG
https://imgur.com/a/crieCUS
https://imgur.com/a/UEAR52x
mechanism.
https://imgur.com/a/jP3BMmG
https://imgur.com/a/crieCUS
https://imgur.com/a/UEAR52x
In Canada and United States an old phone ringer worked on 90V at 20Hz. It probably would not work at the 60Hz of electricity.
An original Bell Telephone used two gongs. Each gong was hit 20 times each second and played different frequencies (440Hz and 480Hz).
Your ringer has only one gong so it would sound completely different to an old original Bell Telephone.
An original Bell Telephone used two gongs. Each gong was hit 20 times each second and played different frequencies (440Hz and 480Hz).
Your ringer has only one gong so it would sound completely different to an old original Bell Telephone.
Traditionally, a phone bell needs around 70 to 90 Vac, at around 20 to 30 Hz. But to see if is even functional, use a transformer with a 24 to 48 Vac secondary. The armature won't be happy trying to move that fast, but you should get something out.
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please don't do that ….
A bunch of resistors give no isolation/protection from the mains
did you not notice people said ~ 20-30 Hz ?
The old ringers needed to work miles away from a telephone switching center using very thin wires, and there might be two or three phones in a house in parallel, so their ringing currents needed to be very low. So they were designed to resonate mechanically at 20Hz then a very low current would cause then to swing back and forth at 20Hz. The armature hammer hit one gong when it moved one way then it hit the other gong when it moved the other way. Your bell dont doo dat.
Sorry, before I was wrong. The two mechanical gongs on an old Bell telephone were 1280Hz and 1610Hz. The ringtone heard on the caller's phone was 440Hz and 480Hz.
The single ringer gong will sound like a door bell, the alternating 1280Hz and 1610Hz musical chord produced by the two gongs in an old telephone will sound like an old telephone.
The single ringer gong will sound like a door bell, the alternating 1280Hz and 1610Hz musical chord produced by the two gongs in an old telephone will sound like an old telephone.
Oh BTW, update:
The ringer worked (overtime) on 120v from the wall. I turned the ringer down as low as it could go...
It didn't care about polarity, just shove a + and - wire in there somewhere. No, that's not a pot I'm using as an on switch, just on/off. Note the nostalgia production is through the roof.
The ringer worked (overtime) on 120v from the wall. I turned the ringer down as low as it could go...
It didn't care about polarity, just shove a + and - wire in there somewhere. No, that's not a pot I'm using as an on switch, just on/off. Note the nostalgia production is through the roof.
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