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Article #16538Re: broken switch on answering machine
From: Michael T Ford
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 10:01
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 10:01
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In article <1hq3gmINNpf4@samir.Warren.MENTORG.COM> samir@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Samir Agarwal) writes: >I have this Radio Shack Duofone (tad-241) answering machine that has a >knob on the rear to adjust the delay before the answering machine kicks >in. >This knob is broken and the answering machine never picks up. >I opened up the machine and found that this thing looks like a potentiometer >(but again it could be anything, I am not electronics savvy). >Is there any way to fix this thing? I don't mind if the machine picks up >immediately instead of several rings. >Thanks, > - Samir I have that same answering machine. I also got it and the pot was broken. I did find that running two wires out to another pot worked quite well. A 100Kohm pot seems to replace the other very well. I think that they need to send the engineers back to the drawing board on that one. 73, Mike
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Newsgroups: sci.electronics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!enterpoop.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!cthomas From: cthomas@athena.mit.edu (Michael T Ford) Subject: Re: broken switch on answering machine Message-ID: <1993Jan7.100154.11952@athena.mit.edu> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Nntp-Posting-Host: alfredo.mit.edu Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology References: <1hq3gmINNpf4@samir.Warren.MENTORG.COM> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 10:01:54 GMT Lines: 26