GPO 232 with Bellset 26 won't ring!
Hi all, I've recently converted a GPO 232 telephone with a Bellset 26 to work on modern phone lines with the Rotatone kit.
I can make and receive calls absolutely fine but the bellset does not ring when I try call it.
Here's the kicker: my house does not have an active BT socket and instead our telephone line comes via our Virgin hub 3.0 router through an RJ11 plug. I have seen on other forums that the phone line from here is VoIP and not PSTN but the fact I can make and receive calls through an analogue phone without any converter determines that's false.
The only reason I can think of is I wired the phone to the diagram shown on the rotatone website and perhaps that was made under the assumption people would be using a BT master plug with a capacitor already there and left the one in the bellset out of the circuit. Could it be possible that the virgin router does not have a ring capacitor and I need to wire one into the bellset to replace the large boxy one already there?
Anybody else had experience wiring old phones to non BT sockets?
Cheers
Peter
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