How to Connect Phone Wiring
A telephone connects to the house telephone wiring through a telephone jack, and subsequently to a connection box, which receives the service from the telephone pole. A telephone jack generally consists of a flat faceplate that mounts against the wall over a telephone outlet, which contains the telephone wiring for the house. The front of the telephone jack has a socket for the telephone cord and the back of the telephone jack has terminals that connect the telephone wiring to the telephone socket. Does this Spark an idea?
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Instructions
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Identify the color code for your house telephone wiring. A variety of telephone wiring color codes exist, but the traditional code uses red, green, yellow, black, blue and orange wire. Line one uses the green wire for the positive lead and red wire for the negative lead. Line two uses the black wire for the positive lead and yellow wire for the negative lead. Line three uses the orange wire for the positive lead and blue wire for the negative lead.
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Examine the six pin positions on the back of the telephone jack. These pins number one through six proceeding from right to left, as you look at the back of the jack. Pin three is the ring for line one and pin four is the tip for line one.
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Locate the terminals that connect to pin three and pin four. The terminal that connects to pin three will be terminal A and the terminal that connects to pin four will be terminal B.
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Select the telephone line to which you wish to connect the jack. This most often is line one, but you may also wish to connect your telephone jack to line two or three.
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Cut any corroded or worn ends from the tip and ring wire of the telephone line to which you wish to connect. Strip the insulation from the last quarter inch on the end of the wire. Wrap the bare wire for the ring wire around terminal A and wrap the bare wire for the tip wire around terminal B. Tighten the terminal screws for these two terminals to hold the wires in place.
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Plug the telephone into the jack to ensure that you're getting a good dial tone. Place the faceplate of the telephone jack against the wall and line up the holes in the telephone outlet with the corresponding holes in the telephone jack's faceplate. Fasten the faceplate to the wall with the pair of long screws that came with the telephone jack.
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