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Ampleworks, that picture is exactly what we are talking about. (You can copy and paste the URL to see it.)

-Hal

I could not find a clear measurement (and I suppose it will vary by cabling manufacturer) as to cable length versus wire length.

12" of Belden CDT 5E cable resulted in 12 5/8" of blue wire. On a 100' drop, that's an extra 6' of wire!

I knew the difference existed but didn't realize it was that large!

Edited: measurement was blue pair

I think I've got it figured out now thanks to you guys!

I'm looking for a good online retailer to get 66 blocks, bridge clips, and cross connection wire. My local electrical supply doesn't stock much telco stuff aside from a few jacks and Cat 5.

You can get all that from these guys. They sell to non dealers.

Bill, am I missing something or does Telephoneparts not sell 66 block covers? I can't find them anywhere!

I'm not sure about the covers, give them a call. Some 66 blocks come with the clear covers.

4 line phones are not cheap in price. There are several small systems that will handle 16 stations and be competitive in price with that many non ksu phones. Besides as has already been mentioned that much wire and layout will be continues problems unless you use a system.

16 of those 4 line phones is the same price as a Vodavi STS installed one with 8 real endpoints

If you figured my labor doing all that extra work with the cabling, it'd probably get really close to evening out the STS system with 16 endpoints.

Lucky for him, I work cheaply!

I have in hand one of these RCA ViSYS 4-line phones. The user manual is showing you need two separate jacks with CO lines 1 & 2 going to one and CO lines 3 & 4 going to the other (brown and orange unused on both 568B jacks).

I'm still confused how I will move lines 3 and 4 from the brown and green pairs on my 66 lock to the second jack for lines 3 & 4 into the blue and green positions without doing any kind of funky stuff with jackleg cables or splitters on the station end.

Well, they ACTUALLY DO make 2 port biscuit jacks and two hole (and more) plates for keystone jacks you know.

But then that's just me...

-Hal