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From: hpubvwa!ssc!Tad.Cook@beaver.cs.washington.edu
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Subject: Re: A Phone Set Wiring Question
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Date: 18 Nov 90 08:59:12 GMT
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In article <14686@accuvax.nwu.edu>, zellich@stl-07sima.army.mil (Rich
Zellich) writes:

> I recently moved to a newly-built home, into which I had had two
> three-pair cables installed.  One cable is for possible future use;
> currently I have two lines used on the other cable.

> On hooking up various phones I, too, found that one single-line phone
> would take *both* lines off-hook.  This is a "novelty" phone - a

The problem is, you have a phone that uses the outer pair
(black/yellow wires) for the A and A1 leads, which short together when
you go off hook.  You have this plugged into an RJ14 jack, which has
the second line wired to the outer pair.  When the phone goes off
hook, it uses the line hooked to the center pair, and shorts the outer
pair.

Rewire the jack so that only the red/green pair is active.  This will
make it a standard RJ11 jack.  Then take the separate black/yellow
pair, and wire it to the center pair (red green) of another jack.  The
RJ14 type wiring should only be used with a 2 line phone that is wired
for RJ14.


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