Telephone wire colours

[Oliverstorrie]

Hi

I am renovating a flat and the main phone line was cut coming into the house. The black cable as the following wires

3 x yellow
1 x orange
1 x green
1x black
1 x white

Does anyone know which wires I connect to the new style telephone cable ? Any information would help

 

[rsgaz]

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[bernardgreen]

First Pair Orange and White, your line is mostly likely to be on these. Connect to A (white ) and B ( orange ) in the Master socket

Second Pair Green and Black keep these long but insulated in case you need a second line in the future

The three Yellow "wires" are steel support strands and serve no electrical purpose. Be careful with them as they will be hard to cut, they also have sharp ends, stabbed fingers are not un-common. put then into a terminal block to just keep the sharp ends safely aout of the way.

 

[Oliverstorrie]

Thanks guys . All sorted and working perfectly ! Much appreciated

 

[PBC_1966]

The three Yellow "wires" are steel support strands and serve no electrical purpose.

For future reference for anyone else reading this, some manufacturers use red instead of yellow for these.

 

[eldaras]

Just registered to thanks for the answer. I just moved the master socket and was wondering what did the green-black pair do... and why there were 3 identical yellow cables .

For the time being, I extended the cable with CAT5 (I know it's not a single copper wire!), and I'm going to replace it with some good CW1308 when I have some time (probably when the line stops working).