[colug-432] Phone Line Connections

[Angelo McComis]

Tom,

Red and Green are all you need. Yellow and Black are deprecated.

Because phones use DC voltage, polarity matters when splicing and
patching it all together.

--
Angelo



On Feb 8, 2012, at 5:33 PM, Tom Cranston <thomas.w.cranston at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> A little off subject, but not entirely.
>
> I am connecting 5 phone recepticles in different parts of
> the house to my phone line. The line coming from the box on
> the outside of the house has four wires, red, green, black,
> yellow. The l9ines coming from the different recepticles
> have the same. Bare ends under the house. I cut open a
> phone cord used from the recepticle to the phone it has
> only 2 wires, Re and green. What are black and yellow for?
>
> I am using a Barrier strip to connect all the lines to the
> wire coming from the phone companies box. Seems like all I
> need is to connect the red to red and green to green and
> leave the others unconnected.
>
> Tom
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