ELK M1 phone line hook-up

[SIMKO]

I was reading the other post about hooking up the phone line to the M1 and realized I overlooked a small detail in my current ongoing install.

I am actually right at the point of hooking up the phone line to the M1. To bring phone service to the ELK, I homerunned a Cat5e to a terminal strip that I have hooked up next to my demarc box. All of my home phones are homerunned to this terminal strip.

I now understand that the M1 must be the first 'telephone' in the circuit instead of just another homerunned telephone off of the terminal strip.

Can I use two of the spare wires in the Cat5e to take the phone signal back to the terminal strip or do I need to run a seperate Cat5e wire?

Basically, the same Cat5e would take phone service to the ELK from the demarc box and then back to the terminal strip to be distributed to the other phones in the house.

I'm pretty sure this is OK, the only time I've seen where doing stuff like this is a bad idea is when mixing phone and data on the same CAT5e.

 

[apostolakisl]

Yes, you can use one pair to send dial tone to the alarm panel and a second pair to return it to your phone panel. I suggest using the same convention as the channel vision. http://www.homecontrols.com/homecontrols/pdf/cvc0432_instr.pdf

I don't know how you are making your connections, but you need to be sure that the Elk is in series such that it goes telco -> into elk tip/ring -> out of elk t1/r1 -> to rest of phones which are wired in parrallel.