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Gai-tronics Info

Gai Tronics


An american manufacturer of resilient, rugged telephones that are often used outdoors, or in hazardous environemnts. Their UK base is in Burton upon Trent, and that acts as their European Headquarters, with further offices in Italy. Their range of phones can be divided into the freestanding units, and telephones that are enclosed within hoods, or enclosures. Each handset is rated based around it's ability to work in different weather conditions, and their emergency phones are usually up to IP65 or IP66 rating. Almost all of their emergency phones are available in the standard canary yellow colour, but also now in other colours such as black or grey, to fit the environment.

Telephones Info

The Telephone come from the Greek words tele = far and phone = voice. It is a telecommunications device that is used to transmit and receive sound. The Telephone is now one of the most common household appliances in the world today. Nearly all telephones operate through transmission of electric signals through a complex network which allows any phone number to communicate with another anywhere in the world.
The Telephone runs two types of information; Signal and Voice, at different times all on the same two wires. The telephones signal equipment consists of a bell to alert the user of incoming calls and a keypad to enter the number for outgoing calls. At the telephone exchange they detect the electrical current and connects the line to the desired line and alerts that line.
The Voice part of a telephone is in the handset and consists of a microphone and a receiver. The microphone is powered from the line and puts out a varied electrical current in response to the acoustic pressure produced by your voice. The variations in electric current are sent along the line to the other telephone where they are fed into a miniature loudspeaker. The varying electric current in the coil causes it to move back and forth, reproducing the acoustic pressure waves of the transmitter. When you ‘hang up’ the current ceases to flow in that line, signaling to the exchange to disconnect the call.
As with many other inventions over the years such as radio, the light bulb and the computer there were several people who claim credit for the invention of the telephone; many did do pioneering work on voice transmission and improved on each other’s ideas. Antonio Meucci, Johann Philipp Reis, Elisha Gray, Alexander Graham Bell, and Thomas Edison, among others, have all been credited with pioneer work on the telephone.

Analogue Info

Analogue phones are telephone handsets that use an old, non-digital, method of communicating. The term analogue phone is often used to describe handsets that are used in the home, and that are not the DECT (cordless) type, but there are also business handsets available for companies that have a simple, standard BT telephone connection, or who have older phone systems in the office. The main difference between a digital and an analogue phone is that the either the phone connects directly in to an analogue port, for example in the home the phone goes straight in to the BT socket. Digital phones are often quoted as having better call quality, but this is often a misnomer since the signal is usually converted to an anologue signal at some point before it reaches the person that you are calling.

Analogue handsets tend to be cheaper, and have less features than a digital handset. This is partly down to the fact that analogue handsets are less capable, and digital networks provide far more features, but it's also down to price point. Analogue handsets are usually much cheaper than digital phones,