? 2 phone lines on one plug
I’m trying to hook up a 2-line phone in my office . I have 4 wire phone cable in a standard box w/ a single plug cover plate. How do I Know which wires to connect? If I connect all 4 wires to the plug will 1 jack runn the dual line phone?
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Make sure you have a 2 line jack and patch cord and yur good to go...
Red/green = L1
Black/yellow = L2
Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....
easy way to remember that ...
if yer from Pittsburgh ...
line one ... X-Mas.
Line two ... Steelers.
Colors are close enough ... worked for me as a kid.
And ... how to tell the colors in oder of importance ...
Steelers are pretty imortant .. but let's face it ... X-Mas wins hands down....
X-Mas always comes first!
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Is that like RED - RIGHT - RINGER???
and GREEN - GROUND
Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....
And to test, just put any two on your tongue and have someone use the cell phone to dial the number in question.
Red = debits
green = money
It's a balance sheet - incoming and outgoing calls
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Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....
LOL Gotta keep those rates up !
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Your phone should have a single jack for a two-line cord--a two-line cord has four of the tiny brass contacts in the plastic ends, rather than the two contacts that a single line cord has. You can get a matching wall receptacle with one jack for a two-line phone, standard stuff at the hardware store. You can connect the 4-conductor wire you already have to that wall jack. Red/green are one line, yellow/black are the other. The wall receptacle has four terminals on it--the two inner terminals are line one, the two outer are line two. You need to make sure you have the matching connections at the phone company box.
This is how it's set up at my house. You may have wire with different colors and/or hardware with different terminals on it, in which case ignore everything I said.