RJ10 cable connector

[DIYspanner]

Is there such a device?

I've got a telephone with the cable fixed in the handset rather than an RJ10 plug & socket.

I've looked for an inline RJ10 connector to add a cable on - nothing that I can see on ebay!

Any ideas?

 

[secureiam]

I have searched on ebay and amazon, rj11 and 10 available

 

[DIYspanner]

Certainly RJ11 but I can't see any RJ10 inline connectors!

 

[FrodoOne]

The 4P4C connector is the standard modular connector used on both ends of telephone handset cords, and is therefore often called a handset connector.

This handset connector is not a registered jack, because it was not intended to connect directly to the telephone lines. However it is often referred to as RJ9, RJ10, or RJ22.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_connector)

 

[SandyLyon]

You could always cut the plugs off, and solder the cables and cover each joint with heat shrink sleeving

 

[DIYspanner]

This RJ10 extension cable should do I think!

Just need to source a better price.

 

[AlanE]

This?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/InLine®-Modular-coupling-RJ10-socket/dp/B001ACV1IW

 

[DIYspanner]

Thanks for the link Alan!

I've ordered one so that should solve the problem.

 

[DIYspanner]

The connector has arrived but with the cables connected, I don't get the dial tone, I get a faint fizzle sound so either the connector's faulty or the pins are not the same in each socket!

This is the phone!

 

[AndyPRK]

routers use the center 2 pins for the main connections.
BT phones use the next pair outwards.

Don't know what yours uses.

Are you in Ireland?

 

[DIYspanner]

I'm in NE England but I'd have thought connections were standardized!

 

[DIYspanner]

I plugged a couple of RJ10 curly cables in to the connector and using my meter, tested the configuration.

Checking the plug pins has identified that the connector swaps the pins round so 1/4, 2/3, 3/2 and 4/1, hence no working phone.

 

[DIYspanner]

Job fixed!

Got an RJ10/11/45 crimper tool and a packet of RJ10 plugs. Got a spare curly cable, cut an end off and crimped a new RJ10 plug on (same wire arrangement as the other end due to reverse polarity of connector) and now have a long enough telephone hand set cable.

Its handy having a crimper tool for future repair jobs!