Request - Eircom Wall Socket

tonkpills

Im looking for an Eircom master wall socket. Many thanks.

Jnealon

Those master sockets are unique to eircom and can't be bought anywhere. You can get a standard slave socket from any electrical wholesale

kaizersoze

Jnealon wrote:

Those master sockets are unique to eircom and can't be bought anywhere. You can get a standard slave socket from any electrical wholesale

Yes they can. They can be bought in any of the 3G shops.
http://www.buy4now.ie/3g/homepage.aspx?loc=H
They're not listed on the website but they have them instore.
If you know any local Eircom engineer you could ask him aswell.

Solair

eircom dont actually really use a master-slave system like BT.

Links between the sockets are simple 2-wire circuits. The eircom sockets however, are high quality and also contain some basic protection for your phone line. The modern versions also allow an engineer to completely disconnect your internal extension wiring very easily (by removing the front plate to which your internal wiring is connected.

BT has a very odd and old-fashioned wiring system. 2 wires come into the house, same as Ireland / most of the rest of the planet. However, the master socket decouples the a/c ringing current applied to the line when the phone rings. This is then sent down a 3rd wire which runs from the master sockets to all of your slave (Extensions). This complex arrangement was used to stop phones tinkling when someone dialled (using pulse dialing) on another extension.

Non-UK phones just handled this internally and wouldn't tinkle anyway.

tonkpills

kaizersoze wrote:

Yes they can. They can be bought in any of the 3G shops.
http://www.buy4now.ie/3g/homepage.aspx?loc=H
They're not listed on the website but they have them instore.
If you know any local Eircom engineer you could ask him aswell.

I saw an eircom van roaming in my local town and me like an mad scone ran after it He told me I could buy one in any loacl 3G shop so thank you very much lads for the help.

MunsterCycling

Why didn't you just ask him for one, not as if he's paying for em...

Normally they'd hand one out no hastle seems you got a tightfisted one

Jnealon

kaizersoze wrote:

Yes they can. They can be bought in any of the 3G shops.
http://www.buy4now.ie/3g/homepage.aspx?loc=H
They're not listed on the website but they have them instore.
If you know any local Eircom engineer you could ask him aswell.

3G sell the cheap extension sockets and not the Eircom master sockets. If you are running new phone points you don't need a master socket, a simple extension will do
See pic for master socket.
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kaizersoze

Jnealon wrote:

3G sell the cheap extension sockets and not the Eircom master sockets. If you are running new phone points you don't need a master socket, a simple extension will do
See pic for master socket.
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Dear god! They do sell the proper Eircom master socket. I got 3 in the 3G shop in Athlone last Feb.

Jnealon

kaizersoze wrote:

Dear god! They do sell the proper Eircom master socket. I got 3 in the 3G shop in Athlone last Feb.

I rang 3G athlone and they do NOT sell them

kaizersoze

Jnealon wrote:

I rang 3G athlone and they do NOT sell them

They must have stopped selling them so. I definately got 3 of them there in Feb.

Solair

All you need is a standard RJ11 socket. Just make sure you youse decent twisted pair telephone cable, not the flat stuff.

The eircom sockets if anything are just very bulky!

You can get nice flush RJ11 sockets easily.

keithclancy

Jesus, its just a socket The eircom badge doesn't make it special