Magicjackernc wrote:Am wanting to do this fix but am lost. Have read and re-read all nine pages of posts in the thread but feel lost.
A poster went to Radio shack and purchased resistors and to dollar tree for a phone extend block.... but another poster got this thing in the picture above(is that a phone extend block?)
I have a solder gun but just don't know what to do when I get the products in front of me.
Since this product will get more and more popular(and many more visits to this thread for help)...can someone take the time to write out step by step instructions - as if talking to a child?
Please refere to the pictures of the Philips J-box a couple of post up.
The adapter box is manufactured by “Philips, Inc.”
Mfg. part number: SDj6013W/17
The only place I have seen this in a store is at Wal-Mart. (any similar duplex jack should work just fine).
The resistor you need is a 100, 000 ohm (100K Ohm, color code brown (1) black (0) yellow (0000) = 100000 ohms (if there is a fourth color band just ignore it, it is the band that tells you the precision of the resistor and is of no consequence to us). If you buy it at Radio Shack make sure it is one hundred thousand ohms. The package they come in should confirm this. Don’t buy a single resistor even if you can save 50 cents. Once it is removed from the package I can guarantee you the average Radio Shack employee will not be able to read it and tell you for sure what value it is. If you get the wrong value it will not hurt anything but you will be making another trip back to Radio Shack.
Now for the easy part, the assembly. As in the picture you just add the resistor across the Red and Green wires. Loosen the screws (don’t take them all the way out you just want to raise the screw head high enough to allow the resistor wire to slip under the screw head.
Rap the resistor wire around the screw with the rap going in the same direction that the screw will turn when you tighten it. You will notice that the direct the resistor raps is from the bottom clockwise on the left screw on the left in the picture and from the top clockwise on the right screw in the picture. If you follow my instructions here it will insure that the screws pull the resistor leads in close and tight as you tighten them. Seem like an incidental detail but it is really important if you want it to work for a long time without any intermittent problems.
Then plug your telephone into one of the ports and your magic jack into the other. It doesn’t make any difference which goes into which; they are just parallel to each other.
PS – if you don’t have any wire cutters to trim the excess resistor leads off after you have it assembled the unit just snip the ends off with a pair of fingernail clippers. The wire is soft tin plated copper and should be no problem for a pair of nail clippers. Just be careful not to snip anything but the tail end of the resistor, if you get any of the other wires at the same time it will get to make another trip to Wal-Mart.
Also the Philips adapter is kept in the same place with all the other telephone extensions and wall plates in Wal-Mart.