Ge General Electric Family Answering Machine Model# 2 - 9876 Nib

2-9866

Models ii-9866

20801800 (Rev. ane, E/S)

97-twenty

Printed in China

P.O. Box 1976, Indianapolis, IN 46206

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Digital Answerer

User's Guide

BATTERY BACKUP

In the event of a power loss, the 9-volt battery

(not included) enables the answerer to retain

messages stored in retention. To install the

bombardment:

one. Remove the bombardment compartment encompass on

the lesser of the unit by removing the

spiral with a Phillips screwdriver.

2. Connect a fresh nine-volt alkaline battery and

identify information technology inside the battery compartment.

3. Supersede the battery compartment cover and

replace phillips-caput spiral.

Annotation: The Battery LOW indicator flashes

when you lot need to alter the battery or if y'all

oasis't installed the bombardment. When you are

replacing the ix-volt battery, disconnect the

telephone string before you install the battery.

Battery compartment door

i. Plug the telephone line cord into a modular

wall jack.

2. Connect the telephone line cord from your

telephone into the jack on the back of the

answerer marked FROM Phone. (Y'all

don't have to connect your telephone in

order for the answerer to tape incoming

letters.)

3. Connect the small terminate of the power adapter

into the Ability 9V Air conditioning jack on the back of

the answerer. Plug the other end into an Ac

ability outlet.

4. Wait for answerer tone that tells you the

unit of measurement has warmed upwardly (approximately 40

seconds) before you proceed with setup.

INSTALLATION

1

2

3

Note: Only utilize the Thomson 5-2418

adapter that was packed with this unit of measurement.

Using other adapters may damage the unit.

SETUP

RECORDING THE OUTGOING ANNOUNCEMENT

Before using your new answerer, you should tape an outgoing declaration

(the announcement callers hear when your answering system answers a call). If

you don't record an outgoing announcement, callers hear a default announcement

that says, "Please leave message after tone."

When recording the announcement you should be near half-dozen inches from the unit of measurement.

Eliminate as much background noise as possible.

one. Prepare your declaration.

Sample Announcement: Hi, this is (use your proper name hither), I can't answer the phone right

now, so delight exit your name, number and a cursory message after the tone, and I'll become dorsum to

you. Thanks.

2. Hold down the Announce button. Record after the tone.

3. Release Announce push when you finish the announcement.

To review the outgoing proclamation, press and quickly release ANNOUNCE

push button.

To return to the answerer'southward default announcement subsequently you've recorded an

approachable announcement, press the Announce push and release it when yous

hear the tone.

SETTING THE TIME

Press and hold the Time/SET button and so:

• To set the day: printing and agree Solar day until the answerer announces the right

day.

• To prepare the 60 minutes: press and hold HOUR until the answerer announces the

correct hour.

• To gear up the minute: printing Infinitesimal until the answerer announces the correct

minute. (When you printing and concord Minute, fourth dimension advances in 5-minute

increments; when you lot press and release Infinitesimal, time advances in ane-minute

increments.

To check the time/solar day setting, press and release the TIME/Ready button (the answerer

announces the day, hour, and minute).

Annotation: The default time remains "1:00 AM Monday" until the time is prepare.

Due southETTING THE S ECURITY C ODE

To pick upwards your messages from another location (chosen remote access), you lot must

enter a 3-digit security code. The default code is 123, merely you tin modify it.

• To change the lawmaking: Press and hold the Fourth dimension/Gear up push while you press and

hold the Lawmaking button. Release Time/Fix and Lawmaking buttons subsequently y'all hear the

code you want to utilize.

• To check the code: Press and hold the Fourth dimension/Ready button while you press and

release the Lawmaking push button.

SETTING THE RING SELECT SWITCH

The Ring SELECT switch is on the back of the unit. Set your digital answerer to

answer calls after 2 rings, four rings, or choose TS (toll saver). Price saver means you

can call your machine from another phone to check letters. If your machine

doesn't pick up after the second ring, you lot can hang up and avoid the toll charge.

SETTING THE INCOMING GESSAGE FiftyENGTH

Utilise the selector on the back of the unit to limit the time a caller has to leave a

message by choosing 1 MIN or two MIN. Set up the selector to MAX if you lot want to requite

callers the maximum corporeality of time to exit a message. The time allowed for

MAX varies depending on how much digital memory fourth dimension has been used for your

proclamation and other messages stored in the answerer's memory.

BATTERY LOW

indicator light

REVIEW–MEMO push

HOUR button in gear up mode

ANSWERER O PERATION

ERASE

REVIEW

SKIP

PLAY / STOP

Battery Depression

ANNOUNCE

MEMO ON/OFF

Fourth dimension/Set up

Minute

Code

HOUR

Mean solar day

SHIFT

ERASE button

SKIP–ON/OFF push

Infinitesimal button in set mode

PLAY/STOP button

CODE push in set mode

ANNOUNCE push

Mean solar day button in set manner

TIME/SET push button

SHIFT push button for 24-hour interval, Hr,

MIN, CODE settings

Volume

control

GrandESSAGES LIGHT

The low-cal on the PLAY/STOP button is the letters light. It lets you know when

you lot have new letters and whether your answerer is on or off.

Messages calorie-free is on — Answerer is on and at that place are no messages.

Messages light is flashing — Number of flashes indicates number of messages.

Messages low-cal is off — Answerer is off, merely you might notwithstanding have messages.

Messages light is flashing rapidly — Outgoing announcement is invalid, memory is

full, time hasn't been prepare, or ability was interrupted and a working ix-volt bombardment

wasn't installed for power backup.

PLAYING GESSAGES

The letters light (on the PLAY/STOP button) flashes when a message has been

left on the answerer. When the answerer has recorded multiple messages, the

messages lite flashes once for each message, pauses, and then repeats.

• To play letters: press and release PLAY/End.

• To stop playback: press and release PLAY/End again.

• To restart the message that is playing: press and release REVIEW.

• To go back to the start of a previous message: repeatedly press and

release REVIEW until you lot attain the message you want to hear.

• To skip to the showtime of the next bulletin: printing and release SKIP.

• To erase a bulletin while it is playing: press and release the ERASE push.

The answerer beeps to ostend the message has been erased.

ERASING ALL MESSAGES

When the answerer isn't playing or recording messages, press and hold ERASE

until you lot hear a beep. You lot can recollect messages erased this fashion by pressing

PLAY/Finish— but just if the answerer hasn't recorded new letters later you lot

erased the messages.

MEMORY F ULL

When the memory is full, the messages light flashes rapidly and the unit of measurement answers

later 10 rings. When calling your auto from another phone (called Remote

Admission) enter the iii-digit security lawmaking after you lot hear the beep and play your

messages. In order for your machine to tape new messages, yous must erase

some of the letters. You lot tin can erase letters remotely by pressing 0 while a

message is playing.

TURNING THE ANSWERER ON AND OFF

When y'all ready up your answerer, the unit of measurement turns on automatically and the messages

lite on the PLAY/STOP button lights. To turn the answerer off, press the ON/OFF

push. When the answerer is off, it answers calls afterwards 10 rings merely doesn't play the

outgoing announcement. The answerer doesn't take letters when it is off.

LEAVING A MEMO

Printing and concord the MEMO push button. Leave your message later the beep. Release the

MEMO push when you're finished talking.

SCREENING CALLS (A UTO DISCONNECT FEATURE)

Since your answerer automatically stops recording when an extension phone is

picked up, you lot tin screen incoming calls past listening as the caller leaves a mes-

sage then picking upward the phone when you lot know who it is.

REMOTE A CCESS

You can access your answerer from any affect-tone telephone by inbound the three-digit

security code after you hear the outgoing announcement. (The default security

lawmaking is 123, merely yous can change it.) Be aware that remote functions do not work

with rotary or button-button pulse-dialing phones. You can cut out the wallet-size

remote cards at right and then you know the bear on-tone commands when you're picking

up letters from another location.

To access your answerer:

one. Phone call your phone number.

ii. After you hear the beep that follows the outgoing announcement, enter your 3-

digit security code. Yous tin bypass the outgoing proclamation by pressing

any number key while the declaration is playing.

Note: The unit answers on the tenth ring when it is turned off or the memory is

full. To admission the answerer, enter the 3-digit security lawmaking later the beep. If

retentivity is total, play messages and erase some of them to restore memory. If the

answerer is off, press 6 to turn it on.

GENERAL PRODUCT CARE

To continue your answerer working and looking good, follow these guidelines:

• Avert putting it near heating appliances and devices that generate electrical

dissonance (for case, motors or fluorescent lamps).

• Exercise NOT expose to direct sunlight or wet.

• Avoid dropping answerer and/or other rough treatment.

• Make clean with a soft cloth.

• Never use a strong cleaning amanuensis or abrasive pulverisation because this will

damage the stop.

• Retain the original packaging in case yous need to send it at a after date.

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

PARTS C HECKLIST

Make sure your bundle

includes the post-obit items:

ThouODULAR JACK REQUIREMENTS

You need an RJ11 type modular jack, which

is the almost common type of telephone jack and

might look like the one pictured here. If you

don't have a modular jack, telephone call your local

telephone visitor to find out how to go one

installed.

Power adapter

Answerer

Note: Illustrations contained within this

User'due south Guide are for representation simply.

Your unit may differ slightly.

ERASE

REVIEW

SKIP

PLAY / End

Bombardment Depression

ANNOUNCE

MEMO ON/OFF

TIME/SET

MINUTE

Lawmaking

HOUR

DAY

SHIFT

SERVICE

FCC requires this product to be serviced only past the manufacturer or its authorized service

agents. In accordance with FCC requirements, changes or modifications not expressly approved

by Thomson Consumer Electronics could void the user'southward authority to operate this product. For

instructions on how to obtain service, call Consumer Information, 1-800-448-0329.

Adhere your sales receipt to the booklet for hereafter reference or jot downward the date this production

was purchased or received as a gift. This information will be valuable if service should be

required during the warranty period.

Purchase date ______________________ Name of shop _________________________

Cut out these remote access cards and then that yous can take them with you to help yous use the remote features.

FCC REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Your GE telephone equipment is registered with the Federal Communications Commission and is in

compliance with parts 15 and 68, FCC Rules and Regulations.

i Notification to the Local Phone Visitor

On the bottom of this equipment is a label indicating, among other data, the FCC Registration

number and Ringer Equivalence Number (REN) for the equipment. Y'all must, upon request, provide this

information to your telephone company.

The REN is useful in determining the number of devices you may connect to your telephone line and however

take all of these devices band when your telephone number is called. In well-nigh (but not all) areas, the sum of

the RENs of all devices connected to one line should not exceed 5. To exist certain of the number of devices you

may connect to your line as determined by the REN, you lot should contact your local telephone company.

Notes

• This equipment may not exist used on coin service provided by the telephone visitor.

• Party lines are subject to state tariffs, and therefore, you may non be able to use your ain telephone

equipment if yous are on a party line. Bank check with your local telephone company.

• Notice must be given to the telephone company upon permanent disconnection of your telephone from

your line.

2 Rights of the Telephone Visitor

Should your equipment crusade trouble on your line which may harm the telephone network, the telephone

company shall, where practicable, notify you that temporary discontinuance of service may be required.

Where prior observe is not practicable and the circumstances warrant such action, the telephone company

may temporarily discontinue service immediately. In case of such temporary discontinuance, the telephone

company must: (1) promptly notify you of such temporary discontinuance; (2) afford you the opportunity to

correct the state of affairs; and (3) inform you of your right to bring a complaint to the Commission pursuant to

procedures set forth in Subpart E of Part 68, FCC Rules and Regulations.

The telephone company may make changes in its communications facilities, equipment, operations of

procedures where such activity is required in the functioning of its business and non inconsistent with FCC

Rules and Regulations. If these changes are expected to touch the use or performance of your phone

equipment, the telephone company must requite you acceptable find, in writing, to allow y'all to maintain

uninterrupted service.

INTERFERENCE INFORMATION

This device complies with Office 15 of the FCC Rules. Functioning is subject to the following two conditions: (one)

This device may not cause harmful interference; and (2) This device must accept whatever interference received,

including interference that may cause undesired operation.

This equipment has been tested and establish to comply with the limits for a Grade B digital device, pursuant to

Part fifteen of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection confronting harmful

interference in a residential installation.

This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in

accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is

no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation.

If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by

turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to right the interference by one or more of

the following measures:

• Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna (that is, the antenna for radio or television that is "receiving" the

interference).

• Reorient or relocate and increase the separation betwixt the telecommunications equipment and receiving

antenna.

• Connect the telecommunications equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the

receiving antenna is continued.

• Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for assist.

If these measures do not eliminate the interference, please consult your dealer or an experienced radio/

television set technician for boosted suggestions. Also, the Federal Communications Commission has

prepared a helpful booklet, "How To Identify and Resolve Radio/Goggle box Interference Bug." This booklet is

bachelor from the U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. Please specify stock number

004-000-00345-4 when ordering copies.

LIMITED Westward ARRANTY

What your warranty covers:

• Whatsoever defect in materials or workmanship.

For how long after your purchase:

• One yr.

(The warranty period for rental units begins with the first rental or 45 days from date of

shipment to the rental firm, whichever comes starting time.)

What nosotros volition practise:

• Provide you with a new or, at our choice, a refurbished unit.

• The substitution unit is under warranty for the remainder of the original product's warranty

menses.

How to brand a warranty claim:

• Properly pack your unit. Include whatever cables, etc., which were originally provided with the

product. We recommend using the original carton and packing materials.

• Include in the package evidence of purchase engagement such equally the beak of sale. Also impress your

name and accost and a description of the defect. Transport standard UPS or its equivalent to:

Thomson Consumer Electronics, Inc.

Product Exchange Center

32 Spur Bulldoze

El Paso, Texas 79906

• Pay any charges billed to y'all by the Commutation Eye for service non covered by the

warranty.

• Insure your shipment in case of loss or damage. Thomson accepts no liability in case of

impairment or loss.

• A new or refurbished unit will be shipped to you prepaid freight.

What your warranty

does not

embrace:

• Customer instruction. (Your Possessor'south Manual provides information regarding operating

instructions and user controls. For boosted data, enquire your dealer.)

• Installation and set-upward service adjustments.

• Batteries.

• Harm from misuse or neglect.

• Products which take been modified or incorporated into other products.

• Products purchased or serviced outside the U.s..

• Acts of God, such every bit just not limited to lightning damage.

Product Registration:

• Please consummate and post the Product Registration Card packed with your unit. Information technology will make

it easier to contact you should it ever be necessary. The return of the carte is not required

for warranty coverage.

How land police relates to this warranty:

• This warranty gives y'all specific legal rights, and you may have other rights which vary

from land to country.

If y'all purchased your production outside the The states:

• This warranty does non apply. Contact your dealer for warranty information.

answers on tenth ring

TROUBLESHOOTING TIPS

are incomplete

Problem Explanation/Solution

Doesn' t answer, or • Make sure answerer is turned on.

• Memory is full, erase some messages.

• Bank check AC power and telephone line connections.

Incoming messages • Was an extension telephone picked upwards?

• The caller left a message that is longer than the

message length you set on the back of the

answerer. Try setting bulletin length to MAX.

• Retentiveness is full.

• You accidentally pressed PLAY/STOP when

you were playing the messages.

FCC NUMBER IS LOCATED ON THE CABINET Lesser

REN NUMBER IS LOCATED ON THE Cabinet BOTTOM

Answerer doesn't work • Unplug power cord from the dorsum of the unit of measurement

and plug it back in to reset the answerer.

Can't hear letters • Adjust volume command on side of unit of measurement.

BATTERY Low indicator • Install a new ix-volt alkaline battery.

is flashing

Tin can't restart bulletin • You must play bulletin for at least five seconds

earlier pressing REVIEW push button.

Messages light • Retention is total. Erase letters.

flashes rapidly • Time is not set. Set time and twenty-four hour period information.

• Power has been interrupted without 9-volt

bombardment backup. Set time and mean solar day data.

Won't reply to • Must apply touch-tone phone.

• Must enter correct security code.

• Did unit hang up? If you lot take no action for a

period of fourth dimension, information technology automatically hangs up.

remote commands

Notation: To disable remote access, prepare the security lawmaking to 000.

Letters light

ADJUSTING THE FiveOLUME

Utilise the volume control on the side of the answerer to conform the book upwardly or

down.

WARNING: TO Prevent FIRE

OR Electrical Shock Take chances,

Practice NOT EXPOSE THIS Product

TO RAIN OR Wet.

SEE Mark ON Bottom / BACK OF PRODUCT

Caution

Hazard OF ELECTRIC Stupor

DO NOT Open up

THE EXCLAMATION

POINT Within THE

TRIANGLE IS A

WARNING SIGN

ALERTING YOU OF

IMPORTANT

INSTRUCTIONS

ACCOMPANYING

THE PRODUCT.

THE LIGHTNING

Wink AND ARROW-

HEAD WITHIN THE

TRIANGLE IS A

Warning SIGN

ALERTING YOU OF

"Unsafe

VOLTAGE" Within

THE PRODUCT.

CAUTION: TO REDUCE THE

Take chances OF ELECTRIC Shock,

DO NOT REMOVE COVER

(OR BACK). NO USER-

SERVICEABLE PARTS IN-

SIDE. REFER SERVICING

TO QUALIFIED SERVICE

PERSONNEL.

1. Disque el número de teléfono

del contestador.

two. Oprima cualquier tecla para

evitar de escuchar el mensaje

grabado.

iii. Teclee los three dígitos de su código

de seguridad después de

escuchar el sonido agudo.

4. Oprima una tecla para elegir la

instrucción.

5. Cuelgue.

Contestador

digital

Escriba los 3 dígitos de su código de

seguridad en los recuadros.

2-9866

Write 3-digit security lawmaking in boxes.

Digital

Answerer

ii-9866

ane. Dial phone number of the

answerer.

two. Press any cardinal to featherbed

your approachable denote-

ment.

iii. Enter 3-digit security code

later the beep.

4. Enter bear upon-tone control.

5. Hang up.

Para:

Oprima:

Detener la reproducción

Repetir el mensaje en curso

Reproducir el mensaje inductive

Saltar al mensaje siguiente

Borrar mensajes

Grabar su mensaje

Reproducir su mensaje

Dejar un aviso

Apagar el contestador

Encender el contestador

three

8

7

nine

0

viii

2

7

five

six

(durante la reproducción)

(durante la reproducciónorth)

Reproducir el mensaje

1

(durante la reproducciónorth)

(durante la reproducciódue north)

(durante la reproducciónorthward)

four

Desplazarse por el menú

rá pidamente

To:

Printing:

Terminate playback

Repeat current message

Play previous message

Skip to next message

Erase message

Tape announcement

Play proclamation

Get out a memo

Turn off answerer

Turn on answerer

3

8

seven

ix

0

eight

2

v

6

(during message playback)

(during message playback)

Play messages

1

(during message playback)

(during bulletin playback)

(during message playback)

four

Move through voice

menu faster

(press seven once again when finished)

(press eight again when finished)

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