Color Code Old Telephone Wiring Diagram
The simplest color scheme is used on normal station cable what your phone tech may call jk which has only two pairs of wire.
Color code old telephone wiring diagram. The wire pair colors are blue orange green and brown. Ron discusses wiring for phone circuits and usoc wiring. Not used in new installations anymore pair one green and red used for phone line 1 pair two yellow and black used for phone line 2 pair three white and blue used for phone line 3 pair four brown and orange used for phone line 4 color code two is the new industry standard used today. Color code schemes are used to identify wires within a cable.
This is the telephone wiring colour code for the nte5 bt master socket with the cable feeding extension sockets attached to the customer removable front plate. He covers the pair colors and their positions in the jack and how to convert old wire colors to the new cat 5e colors. The first pair has one green wire tip and one red wire ring. You can see the test socket revealed to allow you to check the bt line before your own wiring.
Newer homes can have anything from cat 3 3 pair on up to cat 5e with 4 pairs with the insulation colors being a combination of solid and solid with white for each wiring pair. This is how the telephone wiring colour code looks wired with the stripey telephone cable. You may encounter two different wire color schemes while working on your phone wiring. I frequently find disconnected wires at phone jacks whole runs of wire to telephone jacks disabled at the junction block and reversed wiring.