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Have come across older type telephone wire tucked behind an aerial socket. Need to know what colour wire connects to what number terminal on a phone socket. Trying to see if it's "live".

Colours are:
Red
Yellow
Blue
Black
Green
White
All "solid" colours.

Thanks for your help.

2007-10-06 04:25:59 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Consumer Electronics Land Phones

6 answers

Mate, these wires are not any colours that are used in the UK, somebody ( an electician ? ) has wired the extensions in alarm wiring, however you can use these wires if you know where the other end of them are, otherwise I would not touch them as they may still be connected to your house alarm. If you do know where both ends of the cable are, it doesn't matter which ones you use providing you stay the same both ends, the important terminals are 2 and 5 line, 3 ringing leg, BT wiring is blue 2, orange 3, white/blue 5. Hope this helps any more probs repost and I'll get back to you.

2007-10-06 08:56:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

The pairs are:

Red + Green
Yellow + Black
Blue + White (this isn't standard - are you sure these are telephone - are they white with a blue stripe and solid blue?)

If it's wired correctly, the signal for line one should be on the red and green and so on down the list. Red is ring (positive) and green is tip (negative).

I've listed them in the positive negative order. You need to get this right or some devices won't work even if you have dial tone.

If you are plugging directly into the phone, green will be the left center pin and red will be the right center pin for line one. With more info, I could be clearer. What are you using between the wires and the phone?

2007-10-06 04:30:05 · answer #2 · answered by Stop Ranting 5 · 0 0

Using a voltmeter, read across the Red/Green pair you should have 50 volts when phone is not in use. Try the Blue/White pair too, In some color coding Blue/White is first. The pair reading 50 volts are the two wires that are 'live"

2007-10-06 08:59:34 · answer #3 · answered by peterngoodwin 6 · 0 0

you'll probably find it was connected to an internal socket at somepoint, as phone cables these days run on 2 wires and goes through a converter in your house which changes it to 4 wires, the other 2 are not used, so i'd say if there is anything on it then its connected to a conversion box in your house semewhere.

Al....

2007-10-06 04:33:24 · answer #4 · answered by alser 2 · 0 0

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2016-12-14 09:07:51 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

hi in Australia it is blue and white you only need 2 wires unless you have more than one phone line coming in as in 2 lines if U R in aus email me on huntabid@yahoo.com.au

2007-10-06 06:48:42 · answer #6 · answered by huntabid 1 · 0 0

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