AT&T Release 2.0 manual Terminate Cable at a Telephone Outlet

Installing. Telephones and Adjuncts

Terminate Cable at a Telephone Outlet

There are many kinds of telephone outlets, which are fundamentally all the same. Some are surface-mounted, affixed directly onto a wall surface, and others are flush-mounted, where the jacks are located inside a wall housed in a regular electrical box. On the workstation side, a cord plugs into the jack; on the closet side, the DIW cable is hard-wired to the outlet. Following is one method to use when connecting DIW cable to a surface-mounted telephone outlet. You should be able to adapt the method used to join DIW cable to flush-mounted outlets.

NOTE:

In some cases the electrical boxes will already be mounted; in others the installer must do the job. In either case, the box should be installed before the cable is terminated on the outlet.

1 . Take the outlet apart by first unscrewing the screw that holds the sections together; then pull off the termination clips.

2 . Pull out a few feet (approximately one meter) of slack from the wall.

3 . Use diagonal pliers to strip 3 to 4 inches (8 to 12 cm) off the end of the DIW cable.

4 . Thread the conductors through a hole in the base of the outlet.

5 . Press the wires into appropriate slots on the outlet. See Figure 3-35.

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