wiring old phone jack
#1
10-12-15, 10:20 AM
wiring old phone jack
Hi, We are renovating our home, and are replacing a wall jack for the phone. The nice new jack has 4 colored wires...the wire from the wall look like speaker wire...with 2 ends, not 4, and not color coded. Can we rewire this using these wires? if so, how? This would only be used for a phone...not internet.
Thanks,
Rin68nyr
Thanks,
Rin68nyr
#2
10-12-15, 10:35 AM
You only need two wires for POTs. Doesn't much matter what wire. One wire to red one wire to green on the jack. Except in very rare cases such as a rotary phone it doesn't matter which wire to which. (Even with a rotary phone it would still work. You'd just hear the clicks as you dialed.)
