Re: Converting 2 line home to 1 line home

["E. Lee Dickinson" <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"E. Lee Dickinson" <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "coolworld" <chris.smerechniak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Hello the house I bought has 2 separate phone lines which I don't
>> really need and would like to reintegrate them into 1. The juntion box
>> is on the side of my house and appear rather convoluted. Without
>> getting into the details of the configuration too much is there an easy
>> way for me to reintegrate ie attach the second pair of wires to the
>> same terminals as the first ?
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> I assume your problem is that some of the jacks in the house are line 2,
> and some of them are line 1, and that you'd like them all to be on line 1?
>
> Connecting them at the telco box is, in my opinion, a bad idea.  I don't
> know what a 2 line phone would do.. possibly dump the 90v ring signal down
> another pair in a way that could damage equipment?
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> If you can, at the phone jacks, swap the pairs. Generally both pair are
> pulled to each phone jack. L1 jacks are wired with one pair ( Red / Black)
> in the center, L2 jacks with the other pair (Green / Yellow) in the
> center. Flipping them at the jacks maintains the wiring integrity in the
> house.

Sorry. L1 is Red/Green. L2 is Black/Yellow