Hi everyone. I need to rewire a real mess of a phone block area. There are twelve phone blocks in a space measuring approximately 36" x 48", with the Merlin Legend PBX adjacent to this area. The phone sets are anywhere from ten to 800 feet distant, on a campus consisting of one main office building and three other buildings. The wiring between buildings is the half-inch thick gray bundles of 100 wires (don't know the vintage or type).
I intend to have six phone blocks wired to the jacks on the PBX (let's number these 1 thru 6). I also plan to dedicate a phone block to each of the three outlying buildings (blocks A, B, and C), plus three blocks to serve the phone sets in the main building (blocks D, E, and F). I expect to use little gray-jacketed cables of eight conductors to jumper between the PBX blocks (1 thru 6) and the incoming blocks (A thru F).
With that background, my question is: Do I have to use CAT 3 cables for this purpose, or can I use the eight-wire unrated flexible phone cable at Radio Shack? The only CAT 3 cable I've been able to find is so thick that it seems it would just make another mess. I think the Radio Shack wires are of smaller gauge and untwisted, making the entire assembly smaller and more flexible.
Would appreciate everyone's input!
Thank you,
Roger
I intend to have six phone blocks wired to the jacks on the PBX (let's number these 1 thru 6). I also plan to dedicate a phone block to each of the three outlying buildings (blocks A, B, and C), plus three blocks to serve the phone sets in the main building (blocks D, E, and F). I expect to use little gray-jacketed cables of eight conductors to jumper between the PBX blocks (1 thru 6) and the incoming blocks (A thru F).
With that background, my question is: Do I have to use CAT 3 cables for this purpose, or can I use the eight-wire unrated flexible phone cable at Radio Shack? The only CAT 3 cable I've been able to find is so thick that it seems it would just make another mess. I think the Radio Shack wires are of smaller gauge and untwisted, making the entire assembly smaller and more flexible.
Would appreciate everyone's input!
Thank you,
Roger