Norstar: Wiring phones + basic use
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- After 1.5 years without a video and several months of the system sitting in the box, I finally have my Northern Telecom Norstar system set back up, and ready to make more videos about it. In this installment, I explain a bit more about how to wire the phones to the PBX, and then go through what the factory default configuration looks like, and what basic things you can do before you start configuring the system.
I have a playlist containing all my Norstar videos and other related videos now! You can view it here:
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I forgot to mention, in the default configuration, extension 21 rings when a call comes in on an outside line. So if none of your sets are on extension 21, they won't ring for an incoming outside call until you configure otherwise.
Also, I have a playlist containing all my Norstar videos and other related videos now! You can view it here:
ruclips.net/video/nHlSvQK5jUY/видео.html
Today I got a Viking DLE 200 which emulates two phone lines and hooked it up to my BCM50 and I love being able to simulate external incoming calls without an actual phone line or phone service!
Another great video! Looking forward to the next instalment.
You can also make voice intercom calls instead of ringing by doing a priority call. You would need to enable the feature under Telephone (Set) abilities. Once you enabled that feature you will see that option on the display after you dial the extension or Feature 69.
On my system it's Feature 66, and enabled by default for all phones. The only way to disable it is per phone, by activating Voice Call Deny.
Very nice, sweetheart; sounded like the PBX was using an actual relay to do the pulsing!
Yep, it pulses the line relay off and on to dial. It sounds nuts when you have more than one line dialing simultaneously!
Whenever you sell the other two Nortel T-series phones on ebay or some other site I'm interested of buying them for my Nortel Meridian 6x16 PBX to add extensions 25 and 26 to the system. I also do videos of using my Nortel Meridian 6x16 PBX in paging mode wired to paging amplifiers ,speakers and horns on my channel. I also use the Nortel ATA 2 device which is on extension 24 to use regular landline phones with the PBX and can Page with them as well.
I've decided to keep one for posterity, but I will eventually put the other one on eBay, and I'll let you know when I do. It's missing the receiver cord (takes a standard telephone receiver cord) and two of the three programmable key labels, and the plastic covers that go over them. But I've tested the phone and it works fine. I'll probably list it for $5 plus shipping.
@@themaritimegirl That is completely fine with me and will be compatible with my Norstar system which is the Meridian 6x16 just like yours but has a later revision firmware cartage installed. On my system the external page audio output runs to three PA amplifiers with 70-volt speakers and horns which I post on my channel as well if you want to check it out.
@@CristianOrtiztechmaster926 Here you go: www.ebay.com/itm/163623524910
Cool video, i volunteered at school that took over en existing school. Norstar Modular ICS I was able to connect a PSTN line on the patch panel that labeled "TRUNK" (1 pair) when i dial the school the system rings and i get their old voice mail, i can each Extensions and the system transfers it. However on the Extensions when I dial 9 i can not call out, just silence, any tips?
Is the Norstar system compatible with DTMF tone dialling? Can it be used on VOIP lines?
One issue you didnt mention, Norstar also make a phone with the right hand corner cut. These are NOT compatible with the Compact and 6 + 16.
Yes, it can be configured for pulse or tone dialing.
I assume you're referring to the M7324 phone. Yes, they are compatible. Work just fine.
@@themaritimegirl they wouldn't work on our office Compact.
Nice video, I have a question, I have a cell2jack which acts as a phone line but on my cell number if I was to plug a norstar pbx could it possibly work I had tried plugging a phone in before but it didn’t want to work I’m assuming you have a regular phone line from a provider so I was bit curious
Yes, it should work just fine. I would think any standard phone should work on a Cell2Jack too, but maybe they don't provide enough ringing voltage for some phones.
@@themaritimegirl on, thank you I have really wanted a nortel system after my work got rid of them thank you for replying
@@mason_thegoat-_-7687 Any update if it worked or not?
@@lucasdoucette415can’t find any where to buy them yet or there just way to expensive but if I ever purchase one I will tell you my results
@@lucasdoucette415I haven’t gotten the pbx yet I might possibly get one or an avaya acs pbx if I ever get one I will tell you
How do I turn on a feature that is inactive? I try to do feature 981 and it displays "Inactive Feature". Explain how do get the feature to be active.
You either have no voicemail system connected, or it has lost connection for some reason.
im just curious are you going to get the M7410 because i have one with my system and what cartridge are you trying to get with the new page tone
There's no such phone as the M7410. If you mean the M7324, I do have two of them now, which I've shown in a recent video.
I'd like to get a DR5 or newer cartridge.
@@themaritimegirl images.app.goo.gl/ughccHbwRCMFSFeFA
Hey I found u a cartridge
www.ebay.com/itm/NORTEL-DR5-SOFTWARE-CARTRIDGE/254122882381?hash=item3b2ae7754d:g:hggAAOSwTcdcZEeT
Isn't the Norstar a KSU over a "PBX"? The scaling is pretty small. It does have PBX functionality for sure, but I feel it's unfair to characterize a small system as such.
(I'm an Ma Bell>Avaya/Cisco kinda guy)
I think you and I have discussed this on some of my other videos. Indeed, the Norstar is technically a KSU, and called as such in Northern Telecom literature. However, Norstar's functionality is so far above true KSU systems like the 1A2 that I think it's fair to lump it in as a PBX. At the end of the day, it's doing the same basic job - automatically routing calls between internal phones and outside lines.
@@themaritimegirl OK, I didn't realize said comment was redundant. I think it was obvious at the time the Norstar was "so far above true KSU systems" but the initials was re-written to refer to an electronic system, and not the "shoebox" type at that time.
Keeping the initials separate by the products also helps for techs know what is a large system and what's a shoebox; not to minimize a small system replicating some features found in large systems.
Steven Clickford, are the Definity phone systems hard to program? I am also a Ma Bell Avaya guy... I never went past Merlin Magix systems. For some odd reason I love the old displays on the 8434DX phones. Check out my channel, I will be doing some vids on my old 1A2 key system. I already posted a vid on the 2565 phone.
@@bigb2littleb Definity systems are highly complex and require knowledge of Unix and highly advanced programming. I wouldn't recommend it for a small setup. They are also VERY power hungry and will be very expensive to operate 24/7.
New laptop?
It's this one: ruclips.net/video/88vUJq85dK8/видео.html
I run Windows XP on it now.
Lol can you use the music button!!!