Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: levitt@zorro9.fidonet.org (Ken Levitt) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: 2nd Line Color Codes Message-ID: Date: 31 Jul 89 02:07:19 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 24 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 265, message 4 of 7 I have two phone lines in my house. Both lines appear on the same quad cable. Line one is on the red and green wires and line two is on the black and yellow wires. Things work just fine when I plug in a two line phone. However, in some locations I use a wall plate with two modular outlets. I run the red/green wires to the top outlet and the black/yellow to the bottom outlet connecting to the terminals marked red and green. I know that the colors don't matter as long as I am consistant and my polatity tester shows all is OK, but I would like to know what the standard is in color coding. Should the yellow wire go to the terminal marked red or should the black wire go to the terminal marked red? -- Ken Levitt - via FidoNet node 1:16/390 UUCP: ...harvard!talcott!zorro9!levitt INTERNET: levitt%zorro9.uucp@talcott.harvard.edu [Moderator's Note: Green and red/yellow and black/blue and white... who can go further? Once I heard a phone man name all twenty five pairs in a cable and their associated partner.....purple and gray/??? and ???..... then we get into the slates (stripes)...can anyone reading this name all twenty five pairs (fifty wires) and the 'proper' color combinations? PT]