levitt@zorro9.fidonet.org (Ken Levitt) (07/31/89)
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]
feldy@cs.ucla.edu (Bob Felderman) (08/01/89)
>[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] It's really pretty simple: There are 5 color groups white,red,black,yellow,violet In each group there are 5 pairs blue, orange, green, brown, slate For each pair, the wire that is mostly the color of the group goes first. For example the 1st pair is White/Blue then Blue/White. Here's the list: white/blue blue/white white/orange orange/white white/green green/white white/brown brown/white white/slate slate/white red/blue blue/red red/orange orange/red red/green green/red red/brown brown/red red/slate slate/red black... yellow... violet... That will give you 25 pairs (50 wires). To get more than that, for instance in a 1200 pair cable. Each set of 25 (colored as above) is wrapped with a colored ribbon. The 1st 25 pairs get a blue ribbon wrapped around them. The 2nd get an orange, the 3rd get a green ... and so on. I've never installed a cable with more than 100 pairs, so I don't know how the coding goes after 125 pairs. I'd assume it's fairly straightforward. Bob Felderman feldy@cs.ucla.edu UCLA Computer Science ...!{rutgers,ucbvax}!cs.ucla.edu!feldy
chuckh@uunet.uu.net (08/02/89)
>[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] Here, is the order of the 25 pair color code. This is from memory and I don't use it often anymore, but I pretty sure its correct. I don't know of any relationship between red/green/yellow/black quad cable and this code. w/bl bl/w w = white bl = blue w/o o/w r = red o = orange w/g g/w bk = black g = green w/br br/w y = yellow br = brown w/s s/w v = violet s = slate r/bl bl/r r/o o/r r/g g/r r/br br/r r/s s/r bk/bl bl/bk bk/o o/bk bk/g g/bk bk/br br/bk bk/s s/bk y/bl bl/y y/o o/y y/g g/y y/br br/y y/s s/y v/bl bl/v v/o o/v v/g g/v v/br br/v v/s s/v Chuck Huffington uunet!apex!chuckh