Home Automation - telephone lines
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rclondon
12-05-02, 11:30 AM
the telephone company added an additional line to the house. how do you switch the wires on the existing jack in the room where you want the new number?
the_tow_guy
12-05-02, 05:47 PM
Check here for good phone info:
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/phone_wiring.html
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/phone_wiring.html
SafeWatch
12-05-02, 06:54 PM
That's a great site for understanding phone wiring. The plain and simple answer: switch the red/green incoming lines to the black/yellow incoming lines (new houses use blue/white and orange/white wires.) The red/green on the Jack is where your phone is connected, so you just want to put your new incoming line (the black/yellow or orange/white) to the red/green on the jack (where you probably have red/green or blue/white now.) If that doesn't make sense, see the site for diagrams.
One note: if this doesn't work, more than likely you have daisy-chain jacks and the wires are broken at each jack, just connect them. Or, possibly, the lines are not connected outside at the interface. In this case, you have a whole new problem.
Let us know how it goes.
One note: if this doesn't work, more than likely you have daisy-chain jacks and the wires are broken at each jack, just connect them. Or, possibly, the lines are not connected outside at the interface. In this case, you have a whole new problem.
Let us know how it goes.