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Help is rquired in how to wire an extenstion from what appears to be a very old telephone socket. on one side it has 2 black wires coming in and on the other ir has a solid blue wire from one screw terminal and and orange one from the other. What wire do I connect to which on current coloured wire to an extension socket.
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Re: Extension Socket Help Required
Is this where the BT line comes into the property? If so, I believe you'd need to get BT to install a master socket, from which you could then wire your extension.
Iv'e got no idear this bungalow was built in the 1960's and has had one or two estentions to it, its just a wire I have found which I could run an extension from it easily.
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Posts: 982
Re: Extension Socket Help Required
Extensions normally use three wires, one for the voice, one for the bell and one common. The bell signal is separated from the incoming two wire cable at a master socket, hence my question. To do what you want, you'd need to use a master socket - search Amazon, for example.
I would think that Andy needs to identify the incoming pair to the property first!
The photo could just show the original way of extending the phone wire within the property.
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