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Article #19706Re: Modular Telephone Connector
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1988 17:12
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1988 17:12
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In article <4063@enterprise.UUCP> bradc@cognos.UUCP () writes: >Could someone fill me in on the pin-out of the 4-wire modular >telephone connector used in North America? I am particularly >interested in finding the TIP and RING signals. The middle two are tip and ring. It is not particularly useful to ask "which is which?", because the usual modular wiring components reverse them quite casually. Modern phones are designed to be insensitive to the polarity. The outer two wires are not normally connected in residential wiring. They get used for various purposes in commercial phone systems and other specialized applications. -- NASA is into artificial | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology stupidity. - Jerry Pournelle | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
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Newsgroups: sci.electronics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Modular Telephone Connector Message-ID: <1988Sep16.171228.16442@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <4063@enterprise.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 88 17:12:28 GMT