Will the AT&T Merlin BIS 10 Phone work on my home phone line? I work from home and love this phone, but need to know if it will work with a regular phone cord to the jack. Thanks!

Western Electric produced 2 different stands for "Classic Merlin" telephone sets. You will need to locate the stand designed for wall mounting. Such stands appear on eBay from time to time. Keep in mind that Classic Merlin telephone sets were discontinued many years ago so locating the correct base might be a bit of a challange.

It depends on how the control unit is programmed. The BIS 10 can't be used as a stand-alone phone (as in....you can't connect it directly to a telephone line).

The BIS 10 will work with the following systems:

AT&T Merlin 206
AT&T Merlin 410
AT&T Merlin 820
AT&T Merlin 820D2
AT&T Merlin 1030
AT&T Merlin 3070
AT&T Merlin II (with the proper modules installed)
AT&T Merlin Legend (with the proper modules installed)

By the part number. BIS means Built-In-Speakerphone. So a BIS has a mic. Try the right side front.

Carl

Depends on what system you have that phone installed o.

If Merlin Legend, on the left side of the phone there is a 3 position switch. Its in the middle position now.

Slide that down
press on of your lines
Press *347

Slide the switch to the middle position.

If that doesnt work, we need to know the system you have these phones on.

Al the programming for the phone and voice mail are held within thier respective systems. Changing one BIS 10 for another will not delete any programming.

If you have a "squared" system (each line assigned to a different button), just press a different line button. To change the order of the lines, slide the "T/P" switch to "P" and press the line buttons in the order you want to use them (ie: Line 4, Line 3, Line 2, Line 1).

If your lines are "pooled" you just get the next available line from the pool - no choosing which line you get.

Hope this helps.

Enter admin mode:
Slide switch on left (T/P) down to the "P" position.
press the intercom button above TRANSFER
dial the 2 digit extension number you want to modify
Touch the buttons to add/remove the lines.
Green light on means line is active
Green light off means line is not active

Yes, Plantronics sells a myriadof different headsets that should work well with Merlin sets.

Unfortunately no. The merlin 410 was an early phone system that didn't have much in the way of programming.

do you have a manual? the programming code escapes me...you need to remove the lines on that phone. it wont let you program a button over a line button, so you must first remove the "Line appearances" then you should be able to.

Let me know if you need to code for the removal of line appearances....