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Line Switcher

A single phone for two lines

Published in issue 371, November 2007

More and more ISPs, are offering subscribers an extra phone line using Voice over IP (VoIP) on top of their Internet access.

The project described here reduces this inconvenience by letting you connect a single phone to two lines at once, to avoid having to tie knots in the cables! It’s a phone line switcher that routes the ‘correct’ line to the phone automatically.

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Resistors
R1,R2,R7,R8 = 33k
R3,R11,R18 = 10k
R4,R13,R27 = 1M
R5,R6 = 100
R9,R10 = 100k
R12 = 4MΩ7
R14,15 = 47k
R16,R17,R21,R22,R25,R26 = 1k
R19,R20 = 100k
R23,R24 = 470k
Capacitors
C1–C4 = 100nF (7.5mm pitch MKT)
C5 = 470 nF (7.5mm pitch MKT)
C6,C9 = 6μF8 100 V
C7,C8 = 10μF 100 V
C10,C11 = 220μF 10V non-polarised
C12,C13 = 10nF (5mm pitch Sibatit/ceramic)
C14,C15 = 100nF (5mm pitch Sibatit/ceramic)
Semiconductors
D1,D2 = BAT85
D3,D4 = 1N4148
D6,D7 = LED, 3mm, green (low power)*
D5,D8 = LED, 3mm, red (low power)*
T1,T2 = BC557
T3–T7 = BC547
IC1 = 40106BF
IC2 = 4093
IC3–IC7 = TLP620 (Toshiba optocoupler)
Miscellaneous
K1,K3,K4 = RJ11 6/4 phone socket (Hirose TM5RE1-64)
K2 = 2-way SIL pinheader for power: 9 V NiMH battery
S1,S2 = pushbuttons
RE1 = Bistable 5 V 2-pole c/o relay (Panasonic DS2E-ML2-DC5V or Omron G6AK-234P-ST-US)

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Please note. In view of the complexity of international markets, Elektor cannot guarantee the availability of components for this project.

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