Colors we can see
These are your colors for tip on traditional phone wire and cat 3,5, or 6
What are the green and the white striped wires?
This number maxes out the number of phone lines you can put on a single cat5 for legacy telephone.
What is 4?
This is ringing voltage.
What is 60-90 VAC?
It makes a line sing so you can find it.
What is a toner?
This what you do after finishing stripping phone wires, cutting cables, and attaching jacks.
What is clean up the mess you made?
This is the Mnemonic phrase used to remember pairing for tip and ring on traditional phone wire.
What is Christmas tree, bumble bee?
This is the maximum number of phone lines an EMTA or gateway can support?
What is 2?
This is off hook voltage.
What 3-9VDC?
This is what you use to attach to a 66 or 110 block
What is a punch down tool?
This should not be exposed when putting wires in a punch down, scotch lock, or a telephone jack.
What is the bare copper conductor?
These two pair combinations are used to determine line 2 on twisted pair cables
What is yellow, black and orange, white orange?
This is the max Ren we support.
what is 5
This will cut the electric energy flowing to a phone by provide an unintended easier path to ground so you cant make phone calls.
What is a short or Jose's height, that he makes look oh so good?
This checks for dial tone, static, makes test calls and clips to the hips.
What is a bbbbbb telephone test set?
This needs to be worn when cutting or prepping phone wires, as well as, when working in drop ceilings etc....
What is safety glasses?
This is the pair in cat 3 used for line 3
What is the green pair?
This is the best way to get the most phones in a resident without maxing out the REN.
What are Cordless phones?
This is the typical voltage feeding an EMTA.
What is 120VAC?
This can open NIDs and even strip a telephone wire jacket off.
What is a can wrench?
This is left neatly to allow possible repairs to be done without having to replace a wire.
What is slack?
This is the mnemonic phrase for remembering the 25 pair color scheme.
While running backwards you'll vomit
This is the maximum distance of phone wire to an outlet we support
What is 1500FT?
The only voltage type that will allow electronics to function from phones to cable boxes and we have to transform it to do it.
What is DC?
This is the color of the side of the punch down tool that needs to face downwards when attaching a wire to a 66 block correctly.
What is Yellow or Orange?
This is the ANAC (automatic number announcement service) used to verify the phone number assigned to a line.
What is 1(800) 444-4444?