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Advice on installing Panasonic telephone system

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fgrogan

Discussion Starter · Oct 26, 2004

Newbie, not professional looking to purchase and install a KX-***848 in a new home we are building. I have 3 CO lines, will start with 3 ML phones (KX-T7735 or 36 lighted?), 5 SL phones (3 TiVo's, 1 regular cordless, 1 fax). Buying this for future upgradablity, work from home.

I prewired with tons of CAT 5 for voice. Now is time to terminate wire and order system and install.

Questions:

1) Demarc box will be inside and I will ask for 3 seperate surface mount rj-11 jacks to connect the 3 CO's to the system. Might use a surge protector in between. Any advice there?

2) I have about 25 seperate locations throughout the house with phone jacks avaible all home runned to central location in basement (where all the service enters house). What components should I use to properly terminate and connect the KSU to the wire to the individual phones? Here is what I was planning:

From the active ports on the KX-***848 I will run a patch cord to a patch panel (w/110 punch down block) where I will have terminated all of the 25 or so seperate lines. I can then move ports to various locations as I add/move phones. All of this would be in a swingaway 19" rack. Rack mount the KX-***848, patch panel, power supply, other date compontents, video, etc.

Thanks for any help/advice you can give

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emcgrath

· #2 · Oct 29, 2004

Running a patch cord to the panel sounds like the most obvious way to connect the 848 to the wiring- not sure what the question is.

Surge protection would be nice and certainly can't hurt.

My question is: the big plus to the 848 is the multicell wireless capability. Why only one wireless phone? I'm putting the 848 in my house and I'm putting in ONLY wireless phones.

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fgrogan

Discussion Starter · #3 · Oct 29, 2004

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Originally posted by emcgrath
Running a patch cord to the panel sounds like the most obvious way to connect the 848 to the wiring- not sure what the question is.

Surge protection would be nice and certainly can't hurt.

My question is: the big plus to the 848 is the multicell wireless capability. Why only one wireless phone? I'm putting the 848 in my house and I'm putting in ONLY wireless phones.

Currently its a budget issue. I want to cover the basics for now with 3 high quality feature phones hardwired, one to each floor of the house (Master bedroom, kitchen office, home office). I have only recently heard/read from one other person that is actually using the wireless and he says that he is currently using just one cell station (CS) in a larger house than mine with no problem. So that is very encouraging. I just don't like depending on wireless 100% of the time. so current plan is for 3 KX-T7736 hardwired sets on day one, plus one or two existing nortel venture phones as fillers in seconday locations and one CS mounted somewhere in the middle level of the house and one of the wireless handsets. future plans would be to get more wireless handsets and possiblely add another CS up in upper level or attic for full coverage outside too. also based on what I have read you can only have 2 simultanious connections/calls per CS.

What wireless handsetare you planning to use? have you installed yet? I ran 4 runs of cat5 to various parts of the house for the CS's. Where are you planning to purchase your hardware? I'd love to hear more about your config and plans.

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emcgrath

· #4 · Oct 30, 2004

I am completely addicted to wireless handsets. I have used a siemens (all wireless-8 handsets) system for the last 6 years in my old house but the new house is bigger (4 floors including the finished basement/media room) and the siemens doesn't have the range. I'm looking to the 848 as the only system out there with the capability of multiple cells. I expect to have two cells.

I've wired cat 5 for telephony from every room-homerunned to a files/equipment room off of my office. This is where the 848 will go and where one cell will go. My fax is in this room. My Tivo's have wireless ethernet adaptors so don't use the phone system at all. The security system ties in to the phone at the demarc point so it can take control no matter what.

Basically I will only use one of cat 5 telephony wires to connect to the remote cell (at the opposite end of house from office). All other telephone wires are unused.

I love the idea of the 7690 handsets (smaller and Lithium Ion battery) but at half the cost I'll probably get mostly 7680's. I'll probably get one hardwire handset for programming purposes, if nothing else.

I buy most of my stuff at Worthington. If they're reasonably competitive for the whole system then I'll stick with them.

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cmcjo

· #5 · Oct 30, 2004

If you go with the wireless sets, what do you guys do for intercom.

I get alot of use out of the handsfree answerback intercom offered by the panasonic systems. But I am thinking you will have to pick up the wireless handset if another station is calling you?

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emcgrath

· #6 · Oct 30, 2004

From my reading if you set these phones up to "autoanswer" they will pickup calls from other internal phones allowing you to do hands free intercomm. What they won't do is handle voice paging.

This is a small price to be untethered.

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cmcjo

· #7 · Oct 30, 2004

Yes I read the same thing after I posted that.

That is great. But does anyone know if each wireless handset will log the caller ID regardless if the phones were answered, unanswered, or sent to voicemail by the AA?

That has been an issue with the Panasonics in the past.

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