Hi Allen,

> I don't know if this will be seen by anyone who can help, but I love my
> antique telephones... I love the sound of the mechanical bell... and the
> heaviness of the handsets.

Know what you mean :)  I think I have quite a collection in the basement.. or
I did at least.. now I want to go down there and look Lol

> I have a box that lets my cell phone act as an inbound line on my POTS
> channels and it also gates my ip phone in as the landline... however there's
> not enough voltage to make my phones ring... and there's a box from australia
> that will take the rotary phones and read the pulses then dial out.

I'm not sure this page will help you, but maybe it or a link off it will help?
I see them talking about an H-bridge and voltage booster circuit for an
arduino device.. not the same obviously..

http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/5531/wiring-up-old-phone-ringer-
to-arduino

Here's another kind of strange page that might help:

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php/283831-How-to-make-a-phone-ri
ng

Bunch of weird articles out there :)  This is the search I used FWTW:

 google search: How to get enough voltage to make old phones ring from cell
 phone?

> I love the sound of mechanical ringers though.

:)

Take care,
Janis

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