On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:09:43 -0700, "Bob" wrote:


"Mark Lloyd" wrote in message
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On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:01:39 GMT, "ChefBoy"
wrote:

Hello all - I think this is my first post here, but I am a frequent reader
and lurker.

We are doing some remodeling in our kitchen. To "clean things up" before we
have some tile demo'd, I cut some wires out of an OLD phone connection in
the wall - this is the kind before modular, where the phone cord entered the
plate through a hole and hard-wired into the phone wiring. Although this
was an OLD connection, it was apparently "live" as we now have no dial tone.

I've tried doing some research on phone wiring to see if I can fix this
myself - and haven't seen reference to my situation. There appear to be 6
wires coming into the box - all with solid brown insulation. So - I'm not
sure which ones to join together to reconnect the line. We have only one
active phone line.

Does anyone know how this is supposed to work? I'm not well-equipped with
testers - is there one I could buy to find the active wires?

Thanks for your help.

CB


One simple tester is just a 8-ohm speaker. Touch the 2 line wires to
it and you get a dialtone.

Don't do this with a speaker you value. 48 volts of DC may fry it quickly.

Use an old cheap one.

The phone line is high impedance. A load (such as the speaker) will
bring the voltage down considerably.

Bob

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