[NLRS] Telephone Wiring

[Chris Elmquist]

Polarity seldom matters anymore with relatively modern phones--

but red and green are tip and ring for line #1

yellow and black are tip and ring for line #2

I think you may have typo'd the colors on your existing wires since you
list wire two and wire four as the same.   But the idea is that the base
and the tracer will be opposites of each other for the pair.  Blue/white +
white/blue make a pair.  You may have to swap the pairs between red+green
and yellow+black in order to get the proper line onto the proper pins--
particularly if you have only one active line in the premise.

Once you sort the pairs and can get dial tone on a phone... if the
phone does not break dial tone when you push buttons (ie, it doesn't
make tones) then swap the polarity within the pair because you have tip
and ring reversed.

Chris N0JCF


On Friday (01/16/2009 at 04:27PM -0600), Curt Peterson wrote:
> 
> 

> Hi All - Perhaps one of you out there can help me out with a minor telephone wiring problem. My house was pre-wired for telephones in 1971. At that time the wall receptacles accepted a four prong plug whose wiring has the following color code: Wire one - red with blue tracer; Wire two - blue with white tracer; wire three - white with blue tracer & wire four - blue with white tracer. The new wall plug that I purchased from Radio Shack (it has the modern small plastic clip we see so often ) has colors of solid red; solid green;solid yellow & solid black. 
> 
> Can someone cross match these two color codes correctly ??? I have called Quest twice and a Technician kept telling me I needed to buy a new telephone. After several attempts to clarify my situation the Quest Tech hung-up on me. A second call netted me a call center who politely suggested I hire a Quest Tech to come to my house. Of course for a price. It just seems so simple to connect four wires my self that I am asking NLRS Land if someone knows the correct cross reference code that can help me do a 10 minute job. The Quest fee is not a big deal - it just strikes me as un-necessary at this point. 
> 
> Please let me know via email or telephone if you can help. Thanks. My number is; 651-426-5316.
> 
> 73's Curt   KC0FQZ
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