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PARTY BOX
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By: Greyhawke of TDK
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Introduction
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Ever wanted three-way calling without having to pay for it?
Wanted to connect two phone conversations at once, without any
static or excess wiring, or even having two phone lines? Ever
gone beige boxing and wanted to connect two operators (or any-
one!) but didn't have the necessary stuff with you? The party
box fixes them all!
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Materials
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(1) DPDT slide switch
(all you need is DPST, but DPDTs are easy to get)
(2) Modular phone jacks
(4) Alligator clips
Some wire (doesn't matter what kind)
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Assembly
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Take four lengths of wire, and strip the ends about 1/4" on both
ends of the wire. Connect two wires to the red and green termi-
nals on one phone jack, and two wires to the red and green termi-
nals on the other phone jack (so you've used all four pieces of
wire). Connect to the other ends of each wire a red or green al-
ligator clip (down at Radio Shack they sell some nice ones with
color coded insulator sleeves. Get these, it's REAL important
that you know the red ends from the green). If you do this
right, you'll have a red and green aligator clip on each of the
two phone jacks, connected to the wires. By this time, you
should not have any wire end loose; they should all be connected
to SOMETHING.
Now, if you've been paying attention and you know your boxes,
you'll recognize the two pieces of equipment you've just assem-
bled as beige boxes. That's all they are, really, is beige boxes.
Here's what makes those two beige boxes into a single party box.
Take four more short (like 1.5") lengths of wire, and strip all
the ends to about 1/4". First connect one side of each wire to a
contact on the DPDT or DPST switch. Just make sure it's the
right switch. For DPST, you won't have a problem, but for DPDT,
make sure the switch looks like this when the wires are connect-
ed:
*-**-* -
*-**-* -
It's doesn't really matter which side you connect the wires to,
just make sure that at least two of them are in the middle. The
wires are connected to the terminals surrounded by asteriks (*).
Solder each connection carefully to make sure it's a good one
that won't fall off, and make sure none of the wires are touching
each other!! If they do you've got a short circuit and the box
won't work!
Here's the tricky part. Take the bottom two wires (looking at
the DPDT switch from the bottom, so it looks like the above pic-
ture) and connect each one to the red terminal on the phone
jacks. One wire to each jack. Then, take the top two wires and
connect one to the green terminal on each phone jack. Again, one
wire to each jack. Screw down all the terminals good and tight.
If you've done this correctly, there should be two wires leading
to each red and green terminal on the two phone jacks. Set the
switch so it's in the off position. It's off when only the mid-
dle terminals of the switch are covered, or so that the switch is
on the side where there aren't any wires coming to the terminals
there. Just make sure it's in the beige mode. Your box is now
built.
(This is if you used the jacks I suggested at the top of the
file.) To make it look pretty, you can cut away a portion of the
plastic surrounding one of the jacks so that the switch will fit
nicely in the place you cut away. Also cut away a small half-
circle on the bottom of the surrounding plastic to feed the wires
out of (the ones with the alligator clips, not the ones leading
to the switch). Once these two things are done, and the switch
is screwed down securely, tape it all up, super-glue, who cares.
It doesn't matter; just so it stays together.
Once all this is done, here's a few things I like to do to make
things easy. Put a small dot of white paint in the lower part of
the switch, so that when it's on the paint shows. This is easy
to do. Also you might want to know which line you're using for
each box. Just put a glob of a different colored paint on each
side of the party box, and put the same color paint on the wires
leading out of that side of the box.
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Usage
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When used in beige box mode (so that the switch is off), the par-
ty box will operate just like two beige boxes. There are total-
ly, 100% separate from each other, and the conversations don't
get crossed.
However, when used in the party box mode, the party box connects
both lines to each other, essentially connecting all four people
to the same line. Everyone can hear each other, and there is lit-
tle or no static created by doing this. It's works great for
connecting anyone together, and all that's needed is each beige
box connected to an output device ("Bell Can"), and the switch in
the party mode position. See a file on beige boxing for detained
info on what to do while boxing, etc, or how to connect to a Bell
Can.
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Schematic
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This is a really easy box, but someone might want a schematic, so
here's one:
<--- to one phone jack to the other phone jack --->
-------------------------- __/ -----------------------------
(red [ring] wire) - __/! - (red [ring] wire)
------------------------ O/ !_/ O ---------------------------
(green [tip] wire) - __/ - (green [tip] wire)
- O/ O -
- - - -
--- ---
It's a really bad schematic, but the little things in the middle
are supposed to represent the switch in the off posistion, and
the exclamation points just mean it's a DPST switch that doesn't
connect the top and the bottom termials. The (-) and the (-) are
supposed to be the wire.
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