Telephone Jack Wiring Color Code Diagram
Black wire to black terminal.
Telephone jack wiring color code diagram. Line 2 secondary line. The color codes above are the standard and defined within wiring guides. Now that you have your phone jack wiring complete you must now hook the telephone wire up to the connecting block. Blue wire to red terminal.
Yellow wire to yellow terminal. In a typical home the telephone cables connecting your phones within you home contain four wires. Push solid blue wire and white wire with blue stripe into their correct slots with your fingers. Most cable nowadays is utp unshielded twisted pair.
Line 1 primary phone line. How to wire a phone jack voice or telephone rj 11 thru rj 14 usoc wiring diagram telephone wiring for a phone outlet is typically either 1 2 or 3 pairs 2 4 or 6 conductor. Connect the red wire or blue white to the red side and the green or white blue to the green side. 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 schemes are used to identify wires within a cable. Line 1 primary phone line. The internal pairs to the pinout are trasmit and recieve 1 and 1 while the 2 side pairs 2 and 2 are your power. White with blue stripe wire to green terminal.
Line 1 uses the red green pair. You may encounter two different wire color schemes while working on your phone wiring. Red green yellow and black. There may be instances where you may need to connect to or transpose from the old quad cable.
A red and a green. The cat 3 cable can also be used for the rj 14 pinout with the same color code as the cat5 and cat6. They are used in pairs for each phone line you have. The white wire with a blue stripe is terminated on the green tip screw.
Again depending on the age of you home the conecting block could be as simple as two screws. The wiring in our picture corresponds to the bottom row of colors. The solid orange wire is the ring and is connected to the yellow jack screw. Determine which color code grid on the jack corresponds to your wiring using the chart on the package instructions.
You will have a wide variety of telephone jacks to choose from but the wiring for a single line phone service will be standard. Repairmen in fact refer to the wires in terms of pairs so technically a standard four wire telephone line has two pairs. Wiring a telephone jack after installing the cat 3 3 pair phone wire i am ready to install the wall jack. The white wire with an orange stripe is terminated on the black tip screw.
Green wire to green terminal.