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Hey, just wondering if you could help me with something. I am am trying to ring an old fashion rotary phone on the stage. I would ideally like to push a momentary button and have the phone ring until I released the button. Any ideas? Thanks Joe
Hmm... Well it would have to operated by someone like yourself, preferably on stage to avoid lots of wiring.
The circuit seems easy enough, you'd need a speaker, a switch, and something to physically play the sound. I'm not to familiar with ICs, but I think you can program one to do that.
A significantly easier but not ideal way would be to have your sound guy plug in a laptop to the board and play a sound over the system. This wouldn't have as neat of an effect as the phone ringing alone onstage, but it would work.
New brainwave, maybe you could gut the phone and find the circuit that controls the ringer. You could make a little power supply for it that runs off of batteries and have it be wireless with the exception of the switch wires.
Then all you'd have to do is push the button, and riiing, it goes off.
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