Help with telephone line (wiring) please

sparkmanc · 31 Aug 2010

Hi, i have a telephone wire that i am looking t connect into a socket.

It is a 7-core cable with the cores as follows:

1) cream
2) cream
3) cream
4) green
5) white
6) black
7) orange

could someone please tell me how to connect these into a phone socket?

many thanks, Jamie.

TonyW2 · 31 Aug 2010

You will have to tell us a lot more.
Where is coming from? What do you want to connect it into and what are you trying to do?

Lectrician · 31 Aug 2010

I would look twice at your 3 creams

TicklyT · 31 Aug 2010

The 7 wire cable sounds like a dropwire. The yellow (cream?) wires being the supporting steel wires with no electrical connection to them.
The cable pairs are orange / white, and green / black. Orange / white is usually connected to A and B of the NTE. Sometimes green / black is used.

But why would you have disconnected your telephone line? The NTE and dropwire is usually the responsibility of your service provider.

sparkmanc · 31 Aug 2010

it got cut when i renovated my house because it was in the wrong place. I thought the 'cream' cores may be for structure but they are cables? Are they definitely not functional? thanks for help, appreciated.

Lectrician · 1 Sep 2010

They are defiantly strengtheners. The line is more than likey on the orange/White connected to a/b or 5/2. The green/black would be for a second line typically.

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