🚀 go-pugleaf

spt@waikato.ac.nz (Simon Travaglia) writes:

>	You get TWO wires into your house, which get split into whatever the
>	phones need.  The older style decadic phones do most of the connection
>	stuff inside the box on the wall.
>	
>	For the newer style DTMF (tone) phones, the white box should be wired
>	up like so:

>			2		Red
>			5		White
                                        ^^^^ These are the 'line' 

Sounds like you have a 'jack-point' system with presumably either one
permanently-wired phone or a fixed bell-set. If it is properly wired, the
line connections should be green & white.  Red is a parallel 'capacitor'
circuit & blue is a series 'bell' circuit which is connected to green at the
end jackpoint.  This is different from a single phone connection, which uses
red & white for the line, as above (don't ask why :-).
From memory, the line connections are the outermost two on the jackpoint.
Don't use a master socket, just connect the new phone to the old 'line'.
(Unless a modern-type telecom techo says otherwise, I believe this would add
capacitance where it's not needed, the present setup is already wired to
provide the correct amount)
PS. The jackpoint phones have their capacitors disconnected, except for one
(either the fixed phone or the bellset), hence the red wire which 'shares'
it around all the others. Modern phones don't have any, so the master socket
provides it instead.

-- 
Graeme Moffat                g.moffat@aukuni.ac.nz \ Time wastes us all, 
Computer Aided Design Centre,  Fax: +64-9-366-0702 /  our bodies & our wits
School of Engineering,    Ph: +64-9-737-999 x8384 /  But we waste time,
University of Auckland, Private Bag, Auckland, NZ \   so time & we are quits