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In article <1io3i5INNnat@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU> shaffer-wendy@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU (Wendy Shaffer) writes:
>Regarding the telephone in use light, the Feb issue of Popular Electronics has
>a schematic.  Unfortunately, I'm completely unfamiliar with how the telephone lines
>work.
>The schematic shows two wires going to the telephone line.  One of them is marked with the word "Tip" and a + sign.  The other is marked with "Ring" and 
>a minus sign.  Could somebody fill me in on what these mean and how to identify
>one from the other.  Thanks

Telephones nowadays run off of only two conductors.  The red and green
wires are the most common.  And if I remember correctly, red is tip, and
green is ring.  (Someone correct me if this is backwards.)
Don't worry about hooking the circuit up backwards; the worst that will
happen, if anything, is that it won't work.

Good luck,
Mike WZ0C