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- From: cthomas@athena.mit.edu (Michael T Ford)
- Subject: Re: broken switch on answering machine
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.100154.11952@athena.mit.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 10:01:54 GMT
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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
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- 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.
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- I think that they need to send the engineers back to the drawing board on
- that one.
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- 73,
- Mike
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