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Old 17th Mar 2020, 1:10 am   #1
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Default Converting an Onix telephone (not Onyx).

Hi all,

I'm wondering if you can help out converting this Italian Onix (which is not Onyx, I found out too late) telephone. The terminals do not correlate to britishtelephones.com's illustration which is rather frustrating and there are already a few resistors on the board, making it a bit more complicated than I anticipated. The bell seems to be soldered to the welding points on the upper left corner in the first picture. Any help please? Thanks.

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Old 17th Mar 2020, 6:28 pm   #2
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Default Re: Converting an Onix telephone (not Onyx).

Could you please point out witch 2 wires going to the ringer and to the line plug?

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Old 17th Mar 2020, 6:56 pm   #3
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Default Re: Converting an Onix telephone (not Onyx).

Hi Ian,

if the Phone works in Italy, I expect it will work in the UK without anything having to be changed.

If I take a new (UK) Phone from the UK to Italy, the only difference is the Line Cord does not have a BT Jack, instead a RJ?? Plug.

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Old 17th Mar 2020, 11:44 pm   #4
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Default Re: Converting an Onix telephone (not Onyx).

Hi Mike,

Thanks for your insight, and you are absolutely correct. It came with a legacy Italian tripolar plug, and I did recall there are simple tripolar to RJ11 adaptors out there, which means that the wiring must be compatible. I played around with the combinations and voila it worked! Thanks again.

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