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BT Telephone Wiring
rhu_2
Posts: 2 Newbie
in Phones & TV
Hi, we've just had a new kitchen extension built and the builder has relocated the main BT phone socket, but has not connected it up. The cable coming into the house is from the telegraph pole across the road (there are no junction boxes, just the wire straight through), but the wiring colours don't match any of the normal telecom colour schemes that I can find.
There are seven individual wires sheathed in a black outer case. The colours are solid (i.e. no colour bands) as follows:
Black
Green
Orange
White
Yellow (3 wires)
Does anyone know what the correct connections should be or any have any way for me to verify what the signals/voltages on the wires are? From what I gather only two wires are active (Orange & White).
BT want 125 quid to send an engineer out just to connect it up...!
Thanks,
Richard
There are seven individual wires sheathed in a black outer case. The colours are solid (i.e. no colour bands) as follows:
Black
Green
Orange
White
Yellow (3 wires)
Does anyone know what the correct connections should be or any have any way for me to verify what the signals/voltages on the wires are? From what I gather only two wires are active (Orange & White).
BT want 125 quid to send an engineer out just to connect it up...!
Thanks,
Richard
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just pulled my BT master socket apart for you,
I only have two terminals inside the socket A & B
the solid white wire goes to terminal B
the solid orange wire goes to terminal A
Hope this helps.0 -
Legally, you'll have to swallow your pride and pay BT the money to get a master socket installed, as BT Engineers are the only people who can legally fit and repair a master socket. If a BT Engineer found out you fitted it yourself, you are commiting a serious criminal offence and are liable to have your service cut off and/or be fined, or charged for repairs and replacement when it should be free at the very least.
The cable coming into your house is BT property and so they are the only people who can legally do anything with it.
You could find the master socket and instructions using Google, but if BT ever found out or if you get a fault on the line that BT need to fix with an engineering visit, its just something to think about if you go ahead with a self installation, you'll be on your own if it goes wrong.
P.S. If you live in a cable area, see if they could provide a telephone/broadband service.0 -
chilli_dog wrote: »just pulled my BT master socket apart for you,
I only have two terminals inside the socket A & B
the solid white wire goes to terminal B
the solid orange wire goes to terminal A
Hope this helps.
Thanks for the quick response, do you have the other coloured wires the same as mine too, but they are just not connected?0 -
I have black, green, orange and white (all solid colours) no yellows that i can see.
The other colours are not connected0 -
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Colours don't matter ( just make tracing easy). 2.3 & 5 are the connections. Lay the wire across the toothed connection without stripping it and use a plastic knife for instance to press it home. The 'teeth' will strip the plastic and make the connection. 2 and 5 are the pos and neg line and 3 is (I think) something to do with stoppping bell tinkle.0
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Follow Moonrakerz link.
The three yellow wires are to give the cable strength when it is strung up. You don't connect anything to them.
There are four wires so you can have two phone lines carried within that cable. Thus there are only two wires used within your drop wire.
If you go to DIY store you will find a plastic insertion tool like this one from Maplin.0 -
Colours don't matter ( just make tracing easy). 2.3 & 5 are the connections. Lay the wire across the toothed connection without stripping it and use a plastic knife for instance to press it home. The 'teeth' will strip the plastic and make the connection. 2 and 5 are the pos and neg line and 3 is (I think) something to do with stoppping bell tinkle.
Only two incoming wires are used, A & B. These connect to the A & B terminals on the master socket.
If wiring extensions from the master socket then you use pins 2 & 5 which match the A & B and then pin 3 which is used to enable slave sockets to connect up to the ring capacitor and some oldish phones or made for UK use only don't have their own ringing circuit. 2 - 2 , 3 - 3 and 5 - 5.It's PAC not PAC Code, it's MAC not MAC Code, it's PIN not PIN Number, it's ATM not ATM Machine, it's LCD not LCD Display, it's DVD not DVD disc... It's no one not noone, It's a lot not alot, It's got not gotten... Panini is the plural of panino - there is no S!!(OK my English isn't great, the sciences, maths & IT are my strong points!)0 -
tghe-retford is quite right. You really shouldn’t be DIYing it. Did you give permission for the builder to mess around with your telephone master socket? If not, I’d want them to cough up to get BT to put it right.古池や蛙飛込む水の音0
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