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Telephone

Wire Conduit

High Voltage
Power Wire
Conduit

Electrical field from power wires.

18” minimum

Underground Cutaway

Note:

Do not run telephone wires and high voltage power

wires in the same conduit. Separate the high voltage
conduit and the telephone conduit by at least 18 inches to
prevent any electrical field interference that could occur.

“Tip” and “Ring” Definition.

Common terms in the telephone service industry referring to the two wires or sides of

an ordinary telephone line. Tip is the ground side (positive) and Ring is the battery (negative) side of a phone circuit. The
ground side is common with the central office of the telephone company (telco); the battery side carries -48 volts of DC voltage
when in an “Idle” or “On Hook” state.

Phone Line Polarity.

Tip and ring reversal is mostly immaterial, except for special circuits including DID (Direct Inward

Dialing) trunks, T-1 lines, and ground start lines where the field side (“terminal”) equipment (a company's PBX switch, for
example) can only function correctly with correct tip and ring polarity.

Wire Type.

It is extremely important to use the correct type of wire in telephone applications. Since the Access Plus system

requires phone lines to be run outdoors or in an underground environment,

we recommend that you use only wire that is

rated for direct underground burial.

For example,

use Cat5e Gel Filled (flooded) UV Resistant Direct Burial Cable run in

conduit for your Access Plus system phone line requirements.

Do not use thinly insulated brown-jacketed telephone wire (the

type found in the walls of a structure) for outdoor or underground phone line wiring. Using

improper wire can cause noise and

hum

on the phone line. Be sure that phone wire pairs are twisted.

Wire Size and Distance.

Phone lines can be run up to 3600 feet, provided that the proper wire size is used.

1.6 “OPTIONAL” Telephone Line Wire

Be sure to observe electrical safety when working with phone lines. Phone lines carry electricity and the ring voltage can deliver
a substantial jolt.

In most older residences and buildings, the phone cable contains four wires; green, red, black, yellow. The green and red are
twisted to make one pair and the black and yellow are twisted to make another pair (This allowed for the addition of a second
phone line since telephones use only two wires). Most phone lines installed in the U.S. in the second half of the 20th Century
have this type of wire. This type of wire is now obsolete. All new telephone projects are using Cat5 wire. If you have Cat5 wiring
in your residence, the conversion is simple:

The convention for Cat5 wire is as follows:

•

Colored pairs match; e.g., WHITE/blue mark (Tip +) wire goes

with BLUE/white mark (Ring -) wire for one phone line, etc.

•

The pairs are used in the order pictured: for the first line, you

use BLUE, for the second line you use ORANGE, etc.

•

An easy way to remember this is that the colors run from the

sky to the earth. BLUE sky comes first; ORANGE sunset second;
GREEN grass third; BROWN earth last.

Cat5 Wire

Four Conductor