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Look for Harmonica in Clipsal catalogue has an 8 way. Expensive though.


"Nick Andrew" <nick@zeta.org.au> wrote in message
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> "Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>
> >Fraid not. RJ11 usually called 6P4C, 6 positions, 4 conductors.
> >RJ12 is 6P6C, all 6 pins with wires connected to them.
>
> I think you're right here (after I did a google search...). Sorry about
> that.
>
> >> Dick Smith sells RJ12 triple adapters, but you
> >> can't gang them without using other connectors.
>
> >Yeah, thats what I'm currently using and commented on
> >that problem that you cant stack them into yet another
> >triple adapter or even a double. Basically lousy design there.
>
> It's just because they'd like to make the piece as small as possible.
> I use a double at home here, plugged into the patch panel, and there's
> _just_ enough room to get a plug and cable into the socket right next
> to it.
>
> >> 1 x RJ12 triple adapter, 3 x 8cm length of phone cable,
> >> and 2 x RJ12 double adapters with sockets all around.
>
> >Yeah, thats what I was planning to do if I couldnt find the more
> >elegant long strip of about 10 RJ11s all wired in parallel.
>
> Done a google search yet? I haven't heard of them, but if you can
> find one that would be ideal. Of course the telephone network
> wasn't designed to handle 10 devices in parallel due to the
> excessive current drain, but recent technology loads the line
> a lot less than the clunky bell handsets which the system was
> designed for.
>
> Try TLE and J.R.Turk for telephony components. They do trade sales
> but also sell direct.
>
> >Its obviously possible with punchdown RJ11s but you've still got
> >the problem with mounting the RJ11s themselves somehow.
> >Obviously a standard patch panel plate would be fine,
> >but it again isnt that elegant to mount when there isnt a
> >rack to put it in, [...]
>
> Course you could always do what I did, and get a rack to put it
> in. Then you can put in old computers, hardware, basically a rack
> can be a big shelf too.
>
> Nick.
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