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