I need to punch down a CD player into our phone system

[Mucman]

We have a BIX Nortel punch down block and I know exactly where the pair is supposed to be punch down... I am just not sure how to wire up the CD player to it. We tried head phones cables, but they are stranded, have little copper, and have two copper wires in each on for stereo!

I have plenty of Solid cat5e lying around, any ideas how I can connect that to the line out of the cd player?

 

[nightowl]

You could go to Radio Shack and buy an 1/8" plug and use solid CAT5 for the cable. The plug usually has a screw on covering that should be big enough to let CAT5 through.

 

[Mucman]

I found an RCA -> 1/8" mono (male). RCA's have two connectors right? Inside is 1 and the outer portion of the jack is the other correct? If I solder some wire inside and a wire on the outside would that be enough? Pretty ghetto huh?

 

[dexter333]

Get


http://www.radioshack.com/product.a..._name=CTLG_002_003_013_000&product_id=274-139

and


http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog_name=CTLG&category_name=&product_id=274-366

 

[ScottMac]

What are you trying to do ?

If you want to put line-level audio on UTP, then there are adapters to do that...which is desirable because the audio output of the CD player isn't anywhere near the 100 ohm impedence of the UTP ...you could trash the audio out section of the player.

The adapter you're looking for is something like the Lucent/Avaya 380A. You need one for each end. It'll send line-level audio up to 5000 feet (not really recommended, but it's absolutely solid at the usual 100 meter distances).

Other manufacturers make similar adapters, some with video and audio, some are RGB video only, some are composite video only, some are s-video and audio.

There are other adapters for other kinds of applications.

Connecting the line-out or headphone jack directly to UTP is a bad thing.

FWIW

Scott

 

[bandXtrb]

My way would be: get a knife or a scissor, some tape, and use trial and error.

 

[Mucman]

ScottMac - I am hoping those are available from Anixter? What I have is a Nortel BIX punchdown block (and I know which pair is for the hold audio) and I have a CD-player. so I need a basic audio cable to go to one of these Lucent/Avaya 380A adapters, which will change the medium of to CAT5, from there I can punch it down?

 

[ScottMac]

This is for music-on-hold for the PBX?

It should work. At least you have real jacks to work with.

Anixter has 'em.

Good Luck

Scott

 

[Mucman]

ScottMac - Yeah, but the one we have is called ACD??? I don't know much about the phone system. I'll let you know how it goes.

 

[ScottMac]

ACD = Automated Call Director

"Thank you for calling MucManCO, If you'd like to speak to a salesperson, Press 1, if you'd like to talk to a Technical Support person, press 2.....etc"

ACD would be another computer system / logic module thingy / chunk of code / programming module / configuration area, depending on the make, model, type, and version of code.

I'm not a PBX guy, I can't offer any additional information beyond what's above.

Good Luck

Scott