I just found a part on an semi-old telephone (5+years) and i'm wondering what exactly the part is.

description:
its a small black box, looks like a small relay (really small) about 3/8" high and about 7/16" long, bottum is concave a little and has 5 pins coming out in this pattern: (o=pin)
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| o|
|o o o o|
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i hoping its some really small relay, and it does have enough pins to be a DPST. reply if you need more info, thanks.

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Good day BD,

Does your part have any markings, or part numbers?

Do you have access to a digital camera? Maybe a clear snapshot would help someone to determine the gem that you have.

 

all it says on top is "55E"and then a "e" below the big E and as for a picture i thought i could get away with a discription because the part isn't that complex, its simply a small black box with 4 pins equally spaced on one side of the bottum and only one pin on the opposite side near the right.

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Give some dimensions... small to you may or may not be what the rest of us considers small.

ALso, quickly with a DMM try measuring the ohms through some pin combinations for possible clues... for example, if it is a relay and happens to have a normally closed contact pair, you should be able to find two pins that look shorted that are not shorted externally.. or it might be a passive part like some coupled inductors or a pulse transformer..

It might be a semiconductor and that one odd pin by itself could just be there for mounting purposes and not connected to anything.

 

well i did get dementions above, so there is the size. (width and height are the same)
lets say these are the pin numbers:

.....1
2345

the only thing i can find is that pins 3&4 have very little resistance between them, all the rest seem to have no connection. and i have tried using LEDS and then applying voltage to various pins and nothing happened.

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That's an Illudium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator. Be careful with it.

 

since wen did fones contain explosives?!

 

No wait, ur all wrong . . .

That is the continuum transfunctioner . . . it's power is exceeded only by it's mystery.

no seriously, I typed in 55E n 55Ee in google n couldnt find nething

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They used to put explosives in the phones but they decided it was sufficient that people exploded when they got the phone bill.

 

I seem to recall this is a rough 'quote' from an old Bugs Bunny cartoon, it's the weapon used by the martian guy with a paint brush on his head.

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first you give me pleasure...then I'll give you the continuum transfunctioner

The part is still a mystery to me, sorry.

 

blame the IRA