French Telephone Line Wiring
I know this from experience.
French telephone line wiring. Two wires are used from the exchange and a capacitor is used to extract the ac ringing signal from the dc line voltage. Youll hear a soft click when the connector is in place. French telephone jacks are commonly found in the countries listed here. For much more detail then please watch my longer 22 minute.
Depending on local practice this capacitor may either be in the phone or in the fixed phone wiring in which case you may need to take a ringing wire from the master socket to your extentions as you do in the uk i dont know how the french do it. If your telephone does not fit the french telephone plug phone jack wiring may require a french phone adapter. You are not going to learn how to rewire a vintage phone. Rj11 wiring is the most commonly found telephone system.
Hi this video is a very quick example of how to wire up a nte5 master socket as found in the uk on bt and virgin media telephone lines. Now you have the home telephone wiring you have always desired. Ron discusses wiring for phone circuits and usoc wiring. Additional lines would be need for a fax machine or second phone line naturally great.
Older telephone wiring was a basic cat 3 4 conductor or 2 pairs with red green black yellow. For telephone connections with the french phone jack you may need a french phone jack adapter. Somewhere i must have this info but cant find it. Wiring if you are using a small pbx or phone system most likely the pots lines commonly called trunk lines are connected to the system using rj 11 plugs.
Line 1 is usually the only telephone line you need to connect red and green. He covers the pair colors and their positions in the jack and how to convert old wire colors to the new cat 5e colors. Keep in mind that the colors of the telephone wiring in your home will be typically one of two types or insulation colors. Plug a telephone wire into the telephone jack.
Once you have completed all your connections it is possible you may have some problems. The title of this post is lie number one of a litany of lies to be found on the internet. But im getting a bit ahead of myself as i continue reading. You will have a wide variety of telephone jacks to choose from but the wiring for a single line phone service will be standard.
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