Color Code Old Telephone Wiring Diagram
The first pair has one green wire tip and one red wire ring.
Color code old telephone wiring diagram. Older telephone wiring was a basic cat 3 4 conductor or 2 pairs with red green black yellow. This is the telephone wiring colour code for the nte5 bt master socket with the cable feeding extension sockets attached to the customer removable front plate. I frequently find disconnected wires at phone jacks whole runs of wire to telephone jacks disabled at the junction block and reversed wiring. This is how the telephone wiring colour code looks wired with the stripey telephone cable.
The wire pair colors are blue orange green and brown. The simplest color scheme is used on normal station cable what your phone tech may call jk which has only two pairs of wire. You may encounter two different wire color schemes while working on your phone wiring. Color code schemes are used to identify wires within a cable.
You can see the test socket revealed to allow you to check the bt line before your own wiring. Newer homes can have anything from cat 3 3 pair on up to cat 5e with 4 pairs with the insulation colors being a combination of solid and solid with white for each wiring pair. Color code one is the old solid color code. Not used in new installations anymore pair one green and red used for phone line 1 pair two yellow and black used for phone line 2 pair three white and blue used for phone line 3 pair four brown and orange used for phone line 4 color code two is the new industry standard used today.