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OK. Today I am replacing some telephone jacks. Switching them to white here. These are really low voltage
so the voltage is not really a concern. What you do want to do is mimic your colors on
your deals. Telephone lines come in paired wires. At least the newer ones do. The older
wires were read and green and yellow and black would be a pair. So that's what I will be
mimicking today. The red and green. Hooks up to this one my particular yeah it's green
and that's red. Red, green, yellow, and black. The same way that it is so that's nice and
easy. I have a lot of mine where it was wired backwards where it would be red going to green
and green going to red. You know if it has been working for thirty years that way probably
better to just mimic exactly what you have got going on. So this one was the correct
colors so I am just going to go with that. OK. So we've got red here and green here.
The wire is really easy to work with. It is also easy to break. It is also easy to trim
if you need to. To Take the sheathing off you can actually just use your fingernail.
To re strip the wire. It's really simple here. Here's the yellow one and there's the black one.
Just definitely want to avoid the wires touching each other. And we are all set there ready
to install the cover. Nice and easy. Going to orient this the correct way. Newer telephone
lines use paired colors of wires. So you might have blue and blue and white being one pair.
So that would go to green and red. Or you might have orange and orange and white and
that would go to yellow and black. So usually your phone line uses one set of those lines.
So it might use the blue and the blue and white and that would be your phone line. And
than your DSL would use the second paired line which would be like your orange and orange
and white. Probably not quite as many people using phones these days. But maybe some people
using DSL and probably still a few people use the phone service. Seems like most people
are switching over to cell phones. There we go. Nice new telephone wall plate. I'd say
it's an improvement. Good to go.