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1st Sep 2018, 10:33 am | #1 |
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Question about dial contacts
Know nothing about telephones.I bought a 1960s Seeburg home entertainment unit thats basically a jukebox that plays 33.3 albums.It originally used a phone dial selector unit. Didnt get this with the jukebox but managed to build one using a modernish clear plastic phone dial. Turns out this dial is NC, I need a dial that at rest is open. Is an older type dial likely to be what I need? From pictures of an original it looks like a black standard phone dial, can't see Seeburg building their own if it was just a standard item .If they are available could someone please tell me how to word a "wanted" ad on this forum.
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1st Sep 2018, 12:44 pm | #2 |
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Re: Question about dial contacts
If the dial needs to be open when at rest, could you use the dial-off-normal (DON) contacts in series with the dialing contacts. These are open when the dial is at rest and closed when the dial is moved from its rest position. One pair of DON contacts usually shares a terminal with one side of the dialling contacts. You may, however, get one more "connect" than the number you dial, as the first will be as you turn the dial, followed by one after each disconnect as the dial pulses.
As telephones used loop disconnect to pulse the steppers at the exchange, I'm not aware of any that work the other way round.
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1st Sep 2018, 12:49 pm | #3 |
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Re: Question about dial contacts
Regular telephone dials has always been NC, Kellogg had an intercom system with NO contacts, never seen one. Should be possible to adjust yours, or just connect it differently.
Usually a rotary dial has at least 2 set of contacts, the pulsing one, and one or more contacts shorting out the clicking sound from the receiver. using both contact sets you may close the contact when the dial leaves the rest position, and the pulse the number of breaks referring to the number of the dial. This will result in one more pulse than you actually want. That may be solved by moving/adjusting the shorting contact set the shorting to short before the last break, or maybe just adjusting the pulse brakes to be NO. A picture of the back side of the dial may help us giving you a better answer. The type I dial I know best are on picture: https://goo.gl/ejXdTb dsk Last edited by dagskarlsen; 1st Sep 2018 at 1:17 pm. Reason: spelling |
1st Sep 2018, 12:50 pm | #4 |
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Re: Question about dial contacts
Thanks Dave,I did try several wires(theres maybe 10 or more)but nothing was suitable.I can only think that Seeburg must have used some method of reversing the state.Unless the USA dials were different?Was hoping to be able to use something earlier maybe in black that would have suited the era of the machine better.A friend has made a little circuit board using a transistor that does the job for now.
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1st Sep 2018, 12:51 pm | #5 |
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Re: Question about dial contacts
Will get a pic.
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1st Sep 2018, 1:24 pm | #6 |
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Re: Question about dial contacts
Just use a relay to "invert" the pulses from the nc dial.
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As suggested by rambo1152, using the disconnects to operate (or rather release) a relay would be the simplest way to achieve this. This could of course be done electronically if you prefer, as it is in effect a NOT gate.
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1st Sep 2018, 2:27 pm | #8 |
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Re: Question about dial contacts
Just as an aside (I know nothing about jukeboxes), standard US telephone dials also have normally-closed impulse (pulsing) contacts. As do French,German and Danixh dials (to name others that I have worked on).
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1st Sep 2018, 3:25 pm | #9 |
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Re: Question about dial contacts
Pic as requested.
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1st Sep 2018, 3:43 pm | #10 |
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Re: Question about dial contacts
That looks like a standard UK telephone dial. The Blue and Slate (grey) wires are an independant off-normal contact, open when the dial is at rest and closed as soon as you move the dial from the normal (rest) position.
Orange and Pink are the normally closed impulse contacts which open the appropriate number of times as the dial returns to the 'normal' position. Pink and Brown are another normally-open off-normal contact (open when the dial is at rest, closed when you move it off the normal position). Of course this shares a terminal with the the impulse contacts. What happens if you use the orange and brown wires? That would be normally open, close when you turn the dial, then open the appropriate number of times as the dial runs back and finally open (and stay open) when the dial is back to the normal position. Incidentally, I learnt to remember the order of those wires on the dial terminals by : Bill (Blue) Said (Slate) B****r (Brown) [the] Post (Pink) Office (Orange) |
1st Sep 2018, 4:08 pm | #11 |
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Re: Question about dial contacts
I assume the asterisks represent "othe".
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1st Sep 2018, 4:09 pm | #12 |
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Re: Question about dial contacts
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1st Sep 2018, 9:47 pm | #13 |
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Re: Question about dial contacts
That is a good reliable dial, I guess you need a reset signal to, since it only will add more pulses for each time you dial a new digit.
If you glue (melt glue) on a litle plastic on the blue cam wheel so the yellow handle pushes the contacts open you will get your pulses with correct number. The off rest position contacts could be a reset function? dsk |
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Re: Question about dial contacts
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