Mainly spent the day patching phones from the phone system to their assigned ports. Er, that was the plan anyway. Spent much of the morning over at the old building picking out things that still needed to be moved. After lunch, I went back to the patching. According to the folks that ran the wiring, there is a scheme they followed: From the first jack on the lft, go around the room in sequential order (so, if room 115 has three jacks, the first on left is 115/1, then 115/2, and 115/3. I should be able to look at the phone jacked into the wall, determine the jack number based on room and location and plug in the patch wire in the wiring closet. As it turns out, however, not every room follows the pattern. Add to that, some rooms are even labeled incorrectly (one jack in room 224 actually terminates as 113/2). AUGH! I spent a lot of time using the FOX and HOUND to find which wires went where.
By using the device (FOX shown above), I can plug a wire from the wall into the FOX then use the HOUND (which generates a high-pitched tone) to figure out where the cable lands in the closet. Best invention EVER!
Of course, LOTS of other things came up during the day as we are still moving things in, trying to get things organized, etc. I am putting myself under a lot of pressure to get things done quickly. My boss is pretty laid back about it.
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