Office conversion (warning dial up users!)

[electronicsuk]

Crafty, I installed the air conditioning myself. It wasn't one of the quick connect systems, but was supplied with copper pipes pre cut, lagged and terminated that are attached in a way similar to plumbing compression joints. No idea how it worked but the installation instructions didn't call for a vacuum compressor, the system somehow evacuates air in the pipes itself.

Yeah right, there seems to be a strong smell of bull here

The principle behind it seems a bit suspect to me as well, the instructions (being a cheap chinese-built unit) called it the 'discharge air procedure', it basically involved opening and closing a valve a couple of times and then discharging air from the pipelines by pressing the pin on a Schrader valve. Who am I to question - it works fine!

Have you looked at Trixbox (used to be Asterisk@Home), it's basically CD you can download that installs the operating system, Asterisk, and lots of other web-interface type things that make it easy to setup incoming/outgoing lines, extensions and just about anything you could want. It's very good.

I'm running Trixbox as we speak, although its effectively asterisk with all the bells and whistles pre-installed. The problem wasn't with the installation process, more getting PSTN lines to work properly. I have a pair of Atcom AX100Ps installed, managed to get an outgoing route working with relative ease via the ZAP/1 trunk I had set up.

I spent hours pulling my hair out over incoming calls, Asterisk would pick up the line but simply play a pre-recorded message saying the line was not in service. Eventually it transpired that when setting an incoming route you don't include the ZAP/ portion when specifying a trunk to use. It would be nice to see some consistancy!

 

[ban-all-sheds]

The principle behind it seems a bit suspect to me as well, the instructions (being a cheap chinese-built unit) called it the 'discharge air procedure', it basically involved opening and closing a valve a couple of times and then discharging air from the pipelines by pressing the pin on a Schrader valve. Who am I to question - it works fine!

OOI, is the A/C still working fine?