Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: denbeste@andy.bgsu.edu (William C. DenBesten) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Color Codes Message-ID: Date: 31 Jul 89 15:48:26 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 36 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 266, message 5 of 9 > [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)... I thought that the order was: Pair Tip Ring 1 RED GRN 2 YEL BLK 3 BLU WHT, and that the 1st pair was backwards in a modular connector compared to the rest. > can anyone reading this name all > twenty five pairs (fifty wires) and the 'proper' color combinations? PT] *** Schedule 0 *** ------ T I P ------ | BLU ORG GRN BRN SLT R WHT 1 2 3 4 5 I RED 6 7 8 9 10 N BLK 11 12 13 14 15 G YEL 16 17 18 19 20 | VLT 21 22 23 24 25 The ring wire in each pair is has a wide band that is the ring color and a thin stripe that is the tip color. The tip wire has a wide band that is the tip color and a narrow stripe that is the ring color. Is this what you were looking for? I culled this from staring at telephone wiring and looking at advertisements for mod-tap connectors, so I may be all hosed. -- William C. DenBesten is denbeste@bgsu.edu or denbesten@bgsuopie.bitnet