Actual Wiring

[mootcat]

I am getting ready to install a Partner system in one of our new buildings (we already have them in other locations)
And I do not see any wiring diagrams in one of our existing manuals???? I see pictures of Jacks but no actual wiring. I will be using a punch down block in the phone closet and running cat 5 to standard jacks in the offices.
Does any one know where I can find a wiring diagram for this config? I am personally a bit intimidated by the 4 wires per jack so please give me the simple versions.
Hopefully once I do one of these from the get go I will finally understand what is going on

 

[jlshelton]

Partner uses 2 pair wiring "straight through". You can use CAT-5 network wiring just fine with Partner; it uses only 2 of the 4 pairs supplied by CAT-5 wiring.

Pair 1 is the center 2 pins on a modular plug. In an 8-pin modular plug, these are pins 4 and 5.
Pair 2 is the pins surrounding the center 2 pins. In an 8-pin modular plug, these are pins 3 and 6.

Partner modules and phones use 8-pin modular jacks, but you can use ordinary 6-pin modular cords (typically wired with only 4 conductors, pins 1 and 6 are usually not used on most modular cords.)

 

[itpphoneguy]

Hi mootcat,
The standard would be 568A. You only need the blu and orange pairs. CAT-5 wire is great, less noise.
-Chris

 

[aarenot]

If you are intimidated, try this. Allentel makes a 12 port cat5 patch panel that comes with a mounting bracket exactly like a 66 block. Terminate the cables on the patch panel in 568A or 568 B, it will not matter as long as both the patch panel and the jacks in the wall are punched the same. Then use standard cat5 patch cords to plug direct into the partner and the other end into the patch panel. It will also make moving exts. around easy if you label all the jacks. One cable, one jack, one port on patch panel, one patch cord(straight through, not crossover cable.

pins
IIIIIIII on a patch cord, pins pointing up, and away from you on a jack pins pointing down, facing you.
12345678

It is the same for a jack, or a patch cord. 568B 1=white orange, 2=orange white, 3= white green, 4= blue white, 5= white blue, 6= green white, 7= white brown, 8= brown white

569A 1= white green, 2=green white, 3= white orange, 4= blue white, 5= white blue, 6= orange white, 7= white brown, 8= brown white

Either way you wire it is fine as long as both the jack and the patch panel are the same. A patch cord that has the wires in the same positions on both ends will bring 3,4,5,6 out from the partner station port, to the 3,4,5,6 on the patch panel jack. If the jacks and patch panel are labeled, anyone who can read the jack numbers, and can move a patch cord from the active jack to the one they want to activate on the patch panel, can move an ext. Since you are doing this in house, it appears, you can walk someone at another site through moving and ext over the phone, or they can do it themselves if they understand how a patch panel works.

Most cat5 jacks have a diagram in the bag, and or the terminations have numbers on them. Both B configuration and A configurations are layed out.

Hope this helps,
Todd

 

[aarenot]

If you are intimidated, try this. Allentel makes a 12 port cat5 patch panel that comes with a mounting bracket exactly like a 66 block. Terminate the cables on the patch panel in 568A or 568 B, it will not matter as long as both the patch panel and the jacks in the wall are punched the same. Then use standard cat5 patch cords to plug direct into the partner and the other end into the patch panel. It will also make moving exts. around easy if you label all the jacks. One cable, one jack, one port on patch panel, one patch cord(straight through, not crossover cable.

pins
IIIIIIII
12345678

on a patch cord, pins pointing up, and away from you on a jack pins pointing down, facing you.


It is the same for a jack, or a patch cord. 568B 1=white orange, 2=orange white, 3= white green, 4= blue white, 5= white blue, 6= green white, 7= white brown, 8= brown white

569A 1= white green, 2=green white, 3= white orange, 4= blue white, 5= white blue, 6= orange white, 7= white brown, 8= brown white

Either way you wire it is fine as long as both the jack and the patch panel are the same. A patch cord that has the wires in the same positions on both ends will bring 3,4,5,6 out from the partner station port, to the 3,4,5,6 on the patch panel jack. If the jacks and patch panel are labeled, anyone who can read the jack numbers, and can move a patch cord from the active jack to the one they want to activate on the patch panel, can move an ext. Since you are doing this in house, it appears, you can walk someone at another site through moving and ext over the phone, or they can do it themselves if they understand how a patch panel works.

Most cat5 jacks have a diagram in the bag, and or the terminations have numbers on them. Both B configuration and A configurations are layed out.

Hope this helps,
Todd