Instructional Section

How to wire your home for Cat. 5/5e phone wire

How to wire your home for Cat. 5/5e phone wire Once your home is framed with wooden studs, two things have to be determined: where within the house usually in the basement is going to be the termination point (distribution device or structure wire center) for all cat 5e wires coming back from each location within the house and, secondly, where there will be phone jacks within the house. The wire that is run from where the phone jack is to the distribution device is referred to as a "home run". Once the location of the phone jacks is determined, typically kitchen, bedrooms, study, basement, etc. Cat. 5e wire home runs can be made from these locations to the location of the distribution device. The home run wires should be secured along the wooden studs from the location of the phone jack to the location of the distribution devise. At the location of the phone jacks, a low voltage-mounting ring should be secured with the wire hanging through the mounting ring. One can use ETCON part number SPR1 as the secured mounting ring. It is recommended that a foot of extra wire should be hanging through the mounting ring. The SPR1 has wire hooks so the wire can be attached to the mounting ring with a nylon wire tie. Once your home is dry walled, you will find the Cat. 5e wire hanging through the mounting ring and dry wall at the locations where there will be phone jacks. The dry wall installer should have cut away the dry wall so that the mounting ring will be flush against the dry wall and the perimeter of the mounting ring is visible with the Cat.5e wire hanging through the center of the mounting ring. Once the house has been painted it is time to trim it out. At each phone location a RJ45 Cat. 5e jack should be installed. You will require a 110 punch down tool to install the wire. ETCON Catalog No. DD110T can be used for this operation. On the RJ45 jack two designations will be noted: one for T568A wiring and one for T568B wiring. The most standard is T568A wiring. We suggest wiring you home for T568A. Strip back the insulation on the Cat. 5e wire about 1". Keep each colored pair twisted together as close to the termination point as possible. Simply follow the color codes on the jack inserting the blue wire where the solid color blue is noted on the label (on pin 4) and the blue/white wire where the blue/white is noted on the label (on pin 5). Follow the same color coding scheme for the orange and orange/white wires, green and green/white wires and the brown and brown/white wires. The blue wires are considered pair one (line one), the orange pair two (line two), the green pair three (line three) and the brown pair four (line four). Do this for all the remaining jack locations in the house. Next, snap the RJ45 jack to the cover plate. Screw the cover plate to the low voltage mounting ring until the cover plate is attached to the mounting ring and fitted to the drywall. Next, the Cat. 5e wire has to be wired from the demarcation point (point out side the house that the telephone company has brought the four lines to) to the location within the house where the distribution device ETCON DD1 will be located. At the demarcation box, the Cat 5e wire will have to be stripped back and the insulation stripped away so that about 1/2" of the wire is exposed. Keep the colored wire pairs twisted together as close to the screw terminals as possible. Next, the wire has to be terminated onto the screw terminals. Make sure that your Cat. 5e wire colors are terminated to the same terminal color that the phone company has terminated there wires (blue on blue, blue/white on blue/white and so on for the remaining six wires). Now the DD1 distribution device has to be mounted using 4 mounting screws. Using the DD110T punch down tool, punch down the wires from the utility to the DD1. The insulation of the Cat. 5e wire has to be stripped back about 4 inches so the eight color wires are exposed. Keep the colored wire pairs twisted together as close as possible to the 110 terminals as possible. Punch down the blue wire on the first terminal labeled L1 and the blue/white wire onto the second terminal labeled L1. The second pair orange and orange/white should be punched onto the columns labeled L2, the third pair green and green/white onto the columns labeled L3 and the fourth pair brown and brown/white onto the columns labeled L4. Now all the terminals, twelve for each line, have been activated for each respective line. Thread the home run phone pairs back from various room phone jacks (kitchen, bedroom, etc.) to the DD1 through the wiring trough to the desired phone line terminal buss point 2 through 13. Keep the colored wire pairs twisted together as close as possible to the terminals. Terminate with the DD110T punch down tool each phone wire pairs to the desired phone line buss point labeled L1, L2, L3 and L4. For example, if the kitchen phone jack is desired to be on line 2 and 3, punch down the orange and orange/white wires to L2 and the green and green/white wires to L3. The kitchen phone will be able to talk on lines 2 and 3. With a marker inscribe the label with the correct room phone jack location. Place the label on the marker slot adjacent to the termination point. Repeat these steps for each phone jack home run location. If necessary, bundle the phone wires together using the cable tie down loops and a nylon wire tie. The job can be nicely finished using the 1C cover as an option. As an alternative, the DD3 can be used in place of the DD1. The only major difference is the DD3 has four posts which allows the DD3 to mount about one inch off the wall. This enables the installer to run the wires through the back of DD3. Thread the home run phone pairs back from various room phone jacks (kitchen, bedroom, etc.) to the DD3. Pull the wire from behind the DD3 panel, up through the slots to the desired phone line terminal buss L1, L2, L3 or L4. The rest of the wiring is the same as the DD1 instructions.

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This information is intended as a guide only and not intended to replace professional training.

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