A telephone in the US usually onlyuses 2 wires eventhough there may be 3 or most often 4 wires in the cable.
The phone will have voltage of around 15 or so volts DC on it at very low current (probably not enough to hardly see a spark if shorted) when not ringing. When it rings it will have aroud 90 volts pulsing with each ring. Not much danger if no incomming call,and even if you do get a call the voltage will not be that dangerouse,but will sure make you hurt yourslef when you jump back .
If you have a volt meter, see which wires have from 10 to 20 volts DC on them. Those will be the ones to hook to the red and green wires of the phone jack. If no vom, just hook up one wire to the red jack post and touch each of the other 3 wires to it. If you get a dial tone, you are good to go with those 2 wires. If no dial tone, take that wire off and connect one of the 3 remaining wires to the red post. Then try the other 2 one the other post. If no dial tone, that shuld just leave you the last 2 wires to connect to the red and green post. Most times it will not matter which wire is green and red, but sometimes it may depending on the phone. So you may have to repeat the above using the green jack post.
Or go look at another working jack on the line and see which two colors it's using. Assuming the new jack is to be shared on that line, those are your colors. It's it's a jack on a new additional line, then you can rule out the two on the existing jack.
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The easiest way for you to determine which of these six pairs are carrying your 1 phone signal is to open up the jack that your phone connects to and see what wires are connect to the terminals in that jack.
To save some time, open it up then take and post some pictures.
Ok, way too many wires. Get a voltmeter and find the 2 wires at a working jack and hook the same color wires to the red and green terminals of the 4 wire jack.
Mentioned above the phone wires will have between 10 and 20 volts on them. If you pick up a telephone and get a dial tone, the voltage will drop several volts.
Per Stormin' Mormon's directions, I connected the solid gray to the green and the gray/white to the red.
When I plug in the base unit into the jack, I'm getting Error message "Check tel line" which, according to the user manual, means "The telephone line cord is not connected properly"
What would you call twisted-pair cable that has only 3 pairs (blue/green/orange but no brown)? My parents had a house built in 1969 using this. The house had the WIRING going to each bedroom but the only jack was in the kitchen. For years I thought there were jacks in the bedrooms, because the boxed weren't covered by blank plates but plates with round holes in them (like you'd use for a F connector). However, there were just wires behind them.
I get the same thing as before. Perhaps is works for you because you have an account. It would be a good idea to try it with a different browser, one without your login.
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