BT house extension wiring help please
28-12-2008, 18:21
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BT house extension wiring help please
(Hope this is in the right forum). I have a problem with the interior wiring -i.e past the BT master socket.
The master socket is wired thus:
Terminal 5 - 2 blue wires
Terminal 2 Orange and a Green wire (i.e 2 separate wires, each coming from a different cable).
Terminal 3. exactly as Terminal 2.
This socket works OK - it has a ‘phone and a broadband connection. A spur to the kitchen also works OK. The wiring for this is:
5 Blue
3 Orange
2 Green
The socket that I believe to be the problem also links with an upstairs socket. Obviously this doesn’t work either.
The socket (in my study) is wired like this:
2 Green plus another wire - White + Green.
3 Orange
5 Blue
Now, when I unscrewed it from the wall 2 loose wires were evident: Orange + white, which I believe should go on 3, and Blue+ white, which I believe should go 2.
Here’s my dilemma: when I connect the 2 loose wires in those terminals - I still get a dead ‘phone - not even dialing tone tone.
I tried several combinations to no avail - even the Blue + white onto blue (Terminal 4).
The upstairs socket to which my study socket is linked is wired thus:
5 Blue, and Blue+white
3 Orange, and orange+white
2 Green, and White+Green
I’ve just replaced the study socket with a new one with screw terminals. It still doesn’t work.
Please can anyone help?
Thanks,
RTJ
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28-12-2008, 18:28
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Re: BT house extension wiring help please
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28-12-2008, 18:34
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Re: BT house extension wiring help please
If it helps, it looks as though your extensions have been incorrectly wired - if you can work out which cable is which, wire up your sockets as follows:
Connector 2 Blue with white rings
Connector 3 Orange with white rings
Connector 5 White with blue rings
If you wire socket to socket in this fashion, these are BT's standard colours and you should be OK
Peter
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28-12-2008, 18:38
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Re: BT house extension wiring help please
Thanks, I had already viewed those -but they didn't seem to help I'm afraid (unless I overlooked something!).
Thanks anyway,
BW
RTJ
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Quote:
Originally Posted by progers
If it helps, it looks as though your extensions have been incorrectly wired - if you can work out which cable is which, wire up your sockets as follows:
Connector 2 Blue with white rings
Connector 3 Orange with white rings
Connector 5 White with blue rings
If you wire socket to socket in this fashion, these are BT's standard colours and you should be OK
Peter
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Thanks. I have no white +Blue (although I do have Blue+white on 5).
Will have another go... thanks
BW
RTJ
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28-12-2008, 18:38
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Re: BT house extension wiring help please
have you got something to check there is power reaching the second socket ?
i have often found the wires snap easily in master socket
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28-12-2008, 23:10
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Re: BT house extension wiring help please
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Originally Posted by rogermevans
have you got something to check there is power reaching the second socket ?
i have often found the wires snap easily in master socket
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Thanks; will check in the morning.
I'm expecting something around -50v Dc. Correct?
BW
RTJ
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29-12-2008, 12:46
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Re: BT house extension wiring help please
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Originally Posted by rtj
Thanks; will check in the morning.
I'm expecting something around -50v Dc. Correct?
BW
RTJ
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I used a Clarke multi-meter and checked it worked Ok on a 9v battery. Tried it on my study socket terminals and found no voltage at all (tried all combinations of terminals). Funny thing is that I also tried it on the kitchen spur (that socket works OK, and found no voltage there either!). It makes little sense to me!
Thanks,
Richard
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29-12-2008, 17:02
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Re: BT house extension wiring help please
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Originally Posted by rogermevans
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Thanks - yes I did.
Bw
Rich
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16-01-2010, 15:12
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Re: BT house extension wiring help please
sorry to drag up a old topic but seems to at alose for a answer to my own problem. I'll start off with a basic layout of my adsl/phone cabling and what im hoping to fix/work etc.
my phone wiring has been a total mess since some sky bod came round and installed the sky box in here's how it was: from master socket to adsl filter, 1 cable to router 1 to a second phone 2way adapter with 2 cables for the sky (multi room 1 upstairs 1 downstairs) then the phone line onto the 2way adapter. I've spoken to a few people including a bt engineer (who kindly gave me a adsl/phone master with the built in bt accelerator for free) Ive got as far as changing this and it's helped some what, but now to the problem: i was hoping to run a phone cable from the back plate of the adsl/phone plate to a junction box (i got a PHILEX 8way junction box from B&Q) then run 2 cables off the junction box to phone sockets (1 for upstairs 1 for down stairs) is this possable with the junction box i have? have i gotten the wrong one? were can i find a wiring diagram if it's possable?
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