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- HARDWARE MODIFICATIONS
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- Seeing as there have been requests via netmail for more information about
- the motherboard upgrade to allow the CID information through on the older
- motherboard/daughterboard Couriers, here's the information that's
- available:
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- first order Caller ID service from your phone company, and you must install
- the Flash ROM upgrade.
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- Parts needed:
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- (1) Resistor, 10K ohms, 1/4 watt
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- Any garden-variety carbon resistor will work just fine.
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- (1) Capacitor, .033 uF, 200 volts minimum
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- Old-fashioned ceramic disk parts should be OK, but a mica or polyester
- part would be preferred. Do not use any sort of polarized or
- electrolytic part. Capacitors must be rated at 200 volts or better!
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- Solder one lead from each part together, connecting them in series. Keep
- the lead lengths short, the parts should be close together. Polarity does
- not matter.
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- Solder here and
- trim leads short ---> X
- /X\
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- There are 2 different circuit board layouts for the USR motherboard. The
- location that you will install this little circuit depends on whether you
- have the REV "E" motherboard or an earlier one. The REV "E" motherboard is
- easy to spot because of the "REV E" etched into the board at the front
- corner, between the end of the volume control slider, and the front panel
- push-switch. Also, the REV "E" board has the speaker located in the rear,
- near the serial port connector. On earlier boards, the speaker is located
- more towards the middle of the board.
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- In either case, the R-C circuit needs to be installed so that it jumpers
- 2 pins on one of the motherboard chips. This is a small 6-pin chip that
- is used as a solid-state hookswitch relay. On the REV E boards, the chip
- is an LH1500 or XCA111, and is designated U11. On earlier boards, the
- chip is an LH1056, and is designated U8.
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- In both cases, the chip is located near the DIP switch block. Look
- at the silk-screened lettering on the board, and you will see that all
- the component locations are marked. Just look for U8 or U11 as needed,
- and make sure the part number stamped on top of the chip matches the ones
- listed here.
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- Pins 4 and 6 of this chip are the "relay contacts". Solder the free
- ends of the series R-C circuit across pins 4 and 6 of the chip. It doesn't
- matter which end goes where, as long as the circuit is "jumpering" those
- 2 pins.
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- BEFORE SOLDERING, BEND AND TRIM THE LEADS TO MAKE THEM AS SHORT AND NEAT
- AS POSSIBLE. AVOID SPILLING SOLDER ALL OVER THE PLACE, AND DON'T
- OVERHEAT ANY OF THE COMPONENTS!
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- Top view of chip The chip will have a notch or a dot molded
- into the plastic to indicate the location of
- pin #1.
- ----\/----
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- 1 --| |-- 6 <------\
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- | LH1500 | \
- 2 --| LH1056 |-- 5 ------ The R-C circuit "jumpers"
- | XCA111 | / these 2 pins. (4 and 6)
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- 3 --| |-- 4 <------/
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- That's all there is to it! Now put the modem back together, load the
- Caller ID flash rom, and you're in business. Don't forget that Caller
- ID info comes in between the first and second rings, so you have to set
- up your software to allow 2 rings before answering! And be sure that
- you reset all the factory settings with AT&F1&W. The Caller ID flash
- rom adds new s-registers to the modem, and these will contain "garbage"
- values until you do the complete reset.
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- If the Caller ID detection is unreliable, you can try changing the values of
- the 2 components. Resistor values can range from 1K to 100K and capacitor
- values range from .0033 to .047 uF. Try various combinations to see what
- works best for you.
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- THIS MODIFICATION IS NOT NEEDED ON THE SINGLE-BOARD MODEMS! The newer
- design uses a real mechanical relay, and it already has these 2 parts
- installed across the relay contacts.
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- End of File.
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- The parts used were from R.P. Electronics and total cost was about 80 cents
- for an axial lead Mylar capacitor (0.033 uF) and a 10K resistor.