[VoIP] Ernest Telecomm 7D-3 Payphone

[Jayson Smith]

Hey Don,

     Do you have any recordings of the voice asking for money? Curious to
see if I've played with your model of COCOT before.
Jayson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donald Froula" <dfroula at sbcglobal.net>
To: <voip at lists.ckts.info>
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 7:57 PM
Subject: [VoIP] Ernest Telecomm 7D-3 Payphone


> I picked up an Ernest Telecomm 7D-3 single-slot COCOT
> payphone today. There is a programming switch on the
> board in the phone that seems to put the keypad in
> programming mode, but I get no voice prompts or any
> other indication, other than DTMF when I press the
> keys.
>
> The board is labeled "Ernest D3".
>
> Does anyone have programming instructions for this
> beast?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Don
> --- Steph Kerman <stfkerman at jps.net> wrote:
>
> > Mark,
> >
> > Do you have the detailed description of the 1D type
> > CTS?
> >
> > Steph
> >
> > Mark Rudholm wrote:
> > > Steph Kerman wrote:
> > >
> > >> Mark Rudholm wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Something I've noticed with my D phones is that
> > they mute the coin
> > >>> tones much more than my C phones.
> > >>>
> > >> I noticed recently that the coin maintenance
> > practice specifically says
> > >> the Ds mute completely and the Cs not.
> > >>
> > >
> > > If you're in a quiet place, you can hear the coin
> > tones on a D
> > > set, but just barely.  I assume it's unintentional
> > (like the
> > > slight amount of pulse clicking you can hear on
> > most rotary
> > > phones despite the receiver being "muted").
> > >
> > > If you know of a way to change the "muting" to
> > something more
> > > like the attenuation applied by touch-tone dials
> > when sending
> > > DTMF signals, I'd be interested.  Presumably
> > there's a switch
> > > opening somewhere in the phone that could be
> > defeated with a
> > > jumper or resistor (non-permanently).
> > >
> > >
> > >>> There are some other minor differences. For
> > example, if you put a coin
> > >>> into a C phone while it is on-hook, the phone
> > will pause and then
> > >>> return it. If you do that on a D phone, the coin
> > will sit on the
> > >>> hopper until you go off-hook and then on-hook.
> > >>>
> > >> That's interesting.  Never noticed.  I have C and
> > E sets but haven't
> > >> played with them much.  I'd like to have an A too
> > but so far don't.
> > >>
> > >
> > > I'd like to have an un-modified three-slot.
> > Unfortunately,
> > > those don't seem to exist anymore.
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