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In article: <818059629snz@bitmap-brothers.co.uk>  Steve Cargill 
<SteveC@bitmap-brothers.co.uk> writes:
> Thats what I thought!  The wire from the outside world is 2 core, so
> when I re-wired the phones in my house, I used 2&5.  It worked great
> until a few days later my wife told me the phones upstairs wern't
> ringing.  Only the phone plugged into the master socket.  After a bit
> of playing around I found that 3 on all the sockets needed to be
> connected together to make extensions ring.  I belive it's got 
something
> to do with the ring capaciter in the M/S.

I'm no telecoms expert, but have wired up a few sockets.

As far as I am aware, 2 and 5 carry the signal, but 3 definitely has to 
be connected to make the extensions ring.  

I believe that American 'phones only require 2 and 5.

Michael
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