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  2. British telephone socket - Wikipedia

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    In the UK, however, many telephone circuits still have an anti-tinkle connection between the master socket and extensions on a third wire. But such a 3-wire interface is not the symmetric interface needed for balanced twisted-pair transmission lines, and therefore prone to electromagnetic interference and crosstalk with nearby other wiring. It ...

  3. Telephone jack and plug - Wikipedia

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    For example, telephone cables in the UK typically have a BS 6312 (UK standard) plug at the wall end and a 6P4C or 6P2C modular connector at the telephone end: this latter may be wired as per the RJ11 standard (with pins 3 and 4), or it may be wired with pins 2 and 5, as a straight-through cable from the BT plug (which uses pins 2 and 5 for the ...

  4. Category:Telephone connectors - Wikipedia

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  5. List of telephone switches - Wikipedia

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    A SP1 2-wire variant was also available that provided Centrex services. A version of the SP-1 ESS that could provide both 2 & 4 wire services was also built. The first instance was installed in Vegreville Alberta in 1976 or 1977. SP1 4-Wire (Toll) The first example of this switch was installed for Bell Canada, in Thunder Bay, Ontario in late 1973.

  6. Tip and ring - Wikipedia

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    Some telephone technicians used mnemonic phrases, such as red-right-ring-rear, or ring-right-red-rough, to remember that the red wire connects to the right-side post in the wall jack and to the ring on the plug and to the rear lug on main distribution frames. Sometimes rough or ridge was added for jumper wires with a tactile code. [citation needed]

  7. Wiring diagram - Wikipedia

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    An automotive wiring diagram, showing useful information such as crimp connection locations and wire colors. These details may not be so easily found on a more schematic drawing. A wiring diagram is a simplified conventional pictorial representation of an electrical circuit. It shows the components of the circuit as simplified shapes, and the ...

  8. 600 series connector - Wikipedia

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    600 series connectors. A 600 series connector is an obsolete three-pin connector with up to six conductors.. It was for many years the standard telephone service connector in Australia, used on rural party lines and the national Postmaster-General's Department (later Telstra) landline network, but has since the 1970s been superseded by the six position modular connector in this application.

  9. Telephone line - Wikipedia

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    Utility pole with electric lines (top) and telephone cables. Fixed telephone lines per 100 inhabitants, 1997–2007. Cross section of telephone cable of 1,800 twisted pairs, 1922. A telephone line or telephone circuit (or just line or circuit industrywide) is a single-user circuit on a telephone communication system. [1]