One of our builders has aksed us to start running the telephone lines instead of the electricians. What do you guys suggest for a telephone termination head end? We run wire in these houses for completely centralized A/V distribution.

use some kind of structured wiring system, onq open house etc..... only way to go

ditto ceied's response.

I've been using the C-0441 from Channel Vision:

[Link: twacomm.com]

I don't use the alarm bypass section, but it's well designed, and allows for nice dressing of the wire.

Im also using the On-Q housing etc.....

Anything better than wire nuts will be a step up for the builder.

LMFAO... I hear that...

Especially if the electrician was doing it before.

Hey! We're not all that bad.

We use USTec http://www.ustecnet.com/ For our larger jobs we use the ProLAN series. We are able to do all phone, data, cable, and sat distro. It looks good, impresses the customers and the builders, and is easy for us to maintain.

They are completely modular. So you can pretty much do any combination of phone/data. It supports KSU, phone surge, RJ31X, etc.

It is a bit more costly then a punch down. But like I said it looks great and easy to organize everything.

Channel Vision all the way. From the basic 0431 to the expansion modules. It makes life easy.

The Panasonic KSU from Channel Vision is nice also.

Mike

I take it in the first case you are referring to ceLAN?

This looks like all four pairs are connected to RJ45 connectors, then patched together, in other words, an ultimate daisy chain. What do you do when you need to use the first two pairs for the phone system, the third pair for an answering machine on line 1 because they don't want to buy the software answering machine solution, and the fax line on the fourth pair? And then what do you do when they decide to add another phone station where you only ran one CAT5 and using two pairs for each would be perfect?

I still use punchdown blocks and always punch all pairs. I occasionally run out of spots to add wires to some single line, but they make piggy-back punchdowns that will take care of that emergency.

USTec has the best panels i've seen.Also the most expensive i've seen.They look and work great,you get what you pay for.

66 blocks...done

Depends on the size of your system. If your dealing with basic T/R distribution to a few rooms then use 66 blocks and build your own distrbution panel. But if it is a large distribution system with Net access cameras and Networking like a lot of clients are requesting now than I suggest you install a distribution panel. the work is pretty much down for you. just punch it down and your gone. later