Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
Hi, I am Drew Fendy here today to demonstrate how to install a jack for your telephone for
ExpertVillage.com. We are going to install a jack plate now into the wall, we have two
receptacles and I am just going to wire one for the demonstration. We have got a color
code here, the red and the green is what you usually use if you are just connecting one.
You can always look at it and see which, there are four little wires and you can decide which
one the jack you are plugging in is using and connect to the appropriate one here. And
what we want to do is we have got a wire coming through and we are going to strip it back
with these strippers. And be careful, you just cut slightly and you can strip off the
outer sheeting fairly readily. So we want to keep the color code the same, so we are
going to take the green and the orange out, fold back on the wires so that they are out
of our way. We strip these wires; they are very small wires so you may have to turn the
strippers to the side to actually get the insulation off. Sometimes you can use your
thumbnail to get the last little piece off. So we have got two conductors, we want to
connect the green to the green and the red to the red so we unscrew that slightly and
you take the green with the needle nose pliers and bend it around. We want to insert it so
that we are going to be tightening on the clockwise side so we slide that underneath,
take the screwdriver and okay we got that tight. Now we are going to do the exact same
thing with the orange, well it is actually red, take the wire and bend it around and
with the needle nose just hook it up underneath. There are two washers in there, you want to
get between the two washers, and then we snug that down. So we have got our wire, this top
one is going to work, if we want to do the bottom one also we could jump her to here
and if we were going to connect for two lines, we would connect to the other two. You have
just got to keep the color codes together, make a little cheat sheet and note which ones
you are using so that it is consistent when you get to the other side. So we just shoved
this wire in and there is some slack in there, which is good in case you ever have to do
something in the future. We put the cover on and then we can screw that right in.