Hold the phone......

[oscarvan]

Not the end of the world but the house phone is dead. Anyone know where to start looking and what it would look like?

 

[Retired1]

1997?

 

[Boatsb]

1977.

 

[MadHatter53]

Where the outside line meets your inside wiring there is normally a test point inside a box.

 

[johnjen50]

Oscar, do you mean the intercom? If so it’s a 12 volt system on my boat, and if the dc to dc step down has tripped the system won’t work.

 

[oscarvan]

Oscar, do you mean the intercom? If so it’s a 12 volt system on my boat, and if the dc to dc step down has tripped the system won’t work.

Yes, the intercom. Could have been more clear on that. So one of the converters in the lower helm I guess? I'll start looking there. Is there a control box somewhere? Or is it all in the phones themselves? In which case is there a "master" ?

 

[johnjen50]

My Newmar 32/22 converter has a switch that turns it on and off, powering most 12 volt electronics on my boat. It’s located in the strbd engine room on the wall to the right as you enter the forward engine room door. It has a little green diode that is lit if the unit is on and has not been tripped. The unit is right aft of the light switch.

 

[oscarvan]

My Newmar 32/22 converter has a switch that turns it on and off, powering most 12 volt electronics on my boat. It’s located in the strbd engine room on the wall to the right as you enter the forward engine room door. It has a little green diode that is lit if the unit is on and has not been tripped. The unit is right aft of the light switch.

Don't have that. I have FOUR converters in the helm that appear to power engine instruments plus... In fact the one with the red arrow has a wire that goes to a phone wire like bus board and appears not to have any voltage on it. There are fuses that check OK. I will investigate further later. Right now I have bigger issues.

 

[oscarvan]

Epilogue.....

IT LIVES! I know, it's not the end of the world but it's the principle of the matter. Plus, the phone is cool. Anywho, got to seriously looking at it and found a fuse in the side of the power converter. It was blown. And, I discovered the phone on the fly bridge, inside the cabinet, was "off the hook" for the whole winter. This may explain. I also removed about 30 feet of dead wiring leading to said converter. Mo bettah.

 

[JuiceClark]

That's great! My kids are still bugging me about the com.

Does anyone know where I might find that little control box on a 52C?? I've been in every corner of my boat and don't recall seeing such a thing.

 

[oscarvan]

That's great! My kids are still bugging me about the com.

Does anyone know where I might find that little control box on a 52C?? I've been in every corner of my boat and don't recall seeing such a thing.

So, best I can tell there is no control box. There's the phone style terminal block shown in the picture above and one of the wires there is the 12V from the converter, other red arrow. From there I think the wires go to the phones. There may be/probably is some logic in the terminal block.....

 

[wallison]

I have Newmar phones and they are all identical with no controlling device. What rings when is controlled by how they are wired and there are a couple of options. When repairing the system I bought everything on Amazon with the exception of the cable which was hard to find. Everything else pretty simple

 

[JuiceClark]

So, best I can tell there is no control box. There's the phone style terminal block shown in the picture above and one of the wires there is the 12V from the converter, other red arrow. From there I think the wires go to the phones. There may be/probably is some logic in the terminal block.....

Well, that telephony looking little box is what I've been wondering about. I hope it's still on the boat - will go look around in a bit. If I can just find it, I can follow the trail to the power source.

 

[oscarvan]

If I can just find it, I can follow the trail to the power source.

Start at the phone(s) and follow the cable?

 

[JuiceClark]

Start at the phone(s) and follow the cable?

Easier said than done. One is on the side of the main panels and gets lost in the spaghetti of 1,000 wires. The other is in the stateroom and boxed off by a nice panel and then runs under the berth to a pack of wires into the ER. So anyway, I was hoping a 52C owner would know and chime-in.

I'll get there - just too damned hot today to spend time in the ER! It's more of a napping day.

 

[Retired1]

Easier said than done. One is on the side of the main panels and gets lost in the spaghetti of 1,000 wires. The other is in the stateroom and boxed off by a nice panel and then runs under the berth to a pack of wires into the ER. So anyway, I was hoping a 52C owner would know and chime-in.I'll get there - just too damned hot today to spend time in the ER! It's more of a napping day.

Sorta the opposite of napping, but have you ever ridden the mountain bike trail there in Alva?0

 

[Photolomy]

I got a set of wireless phones (like we used to use as house phones) that have voice paging, which means when I talk into one handset, you can hear it throughout the boat. It was something like $100 with 5 handsets. My boat didn't have the old intercom phones, or at least the PO took them out. There was one unit in a drawer.

 

[Phasma2128]

Photolomy, I would love to know a make on model on those phones

 

[Photolomy]

Photolomy, I would love to know a make on model on those phones

https://www.target.com/p/panasonic-cordless-phone-with-link-to-cell-and-digital-answering-machine-5-handsets-black-kx-tge675b/-/A-53446182#lnk=sametab

The feature is voice paging. You can do it from any handset and when you initiate it, all of the other handsets beep once and then you are live. No one has to answer. It is plenty loud as well. No more banging on the flybridge floor to try to get someone's attention. Oh, and you don't have to have it connected to a phone line to work, though it will also connect to two cell phones and give you phone calling as well.

 

[JuiceClark]

Sorta the opposite of napping, but have you ever ridden the mountain bike trail there in Alva?0

Well, no. No, I've never even considered such a thing!