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Installing Telephones and Adjuncts
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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.
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Take the outlet apart by first unscrewing the screw that holds the
sections together; then pull off the termination clips.
Pull out a few feet (approximately one meter) of slack from the wall.
Use diagonal pliers to strip 3 to 4 inches (8 to 12 cm) off the end of the
DIW cable.
Thread the conductors through a hole in the base of the outlet.
Press the wires into appropriate slots on the outlet. See Figure 3-35.
Connecting the Telephones to the Control Unit
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