XLR Cables

[MrAHC]

About to make a Speakon - XLR cable the Speekon is conected now i've got a black wire and a white wire what colour goes to what number on the XLR's prongs. its a male XLR.

[SNIPERWOLF]

google is your friend! http://www.theavguide.co.uk/view_page.php?page=27

jake

[MrAHC]

google is your friend! http://www.theavguide.co.uk/view_page.php?page=27

jake
thought i'd try here first coz i need info in laymans terms.

[MrAHC]

thats for a tv not a speaker....

i only got 2 wires. i got a 50/50 chance of getting it right i suppose but i dont want to blow my beautiful ev top boxes up :(

[elretardo87]

Positive goes to number 2 and negative goes to number 3. Then join 1 & 3 together.

http://www.scotaudio.com/images/unbalanced_xlr.gif

[MrAHC]

Positive goes to number 2 and negative goes to number 3. Then join 1 & 3 together.

http://www.scotaudio.com/images/unbalanced_xlr.gif black & white which is + which is -?. there was no 1 & 3 joined when i removed the old cable from the plug does this realy matter. & if so what do u join it with?


ta for ur help ed

[MrAHC]

i'm lost on jacks as well now, just took one apart n forgot where brown live wire goes :laugh_at:

i'm shit init ? :laugh_at:

[Acidfairy]

Have a look on here see if anything helps.. http://www.mediacollege.com/audio/connection/xlr-jack-stereo.html

I find drawing a wee diagram of it before i disconnect everything helps.. :wink:

[MrAHC]

Have a look on here see if anything helps.. http://www.mediacollege.com/audio/connection/xlr-jack-stereo.html

I find drawing a wee diagram of it before i disconnect everything helps.. :wink:thats the first mr ahc friendly explaination i've seen on the net yet :laugh_at:

[MrAHC]

most of these half done cables i takin apart n fixin i got off dan ooops n they only got live/nutral in em. same as a couple of half done ones i got from somewhere else.

[Acidfairy]

thats the first mr ahc friendly explaination i've seen on the net yet :laugh_at:

Glad to be of some assistance :weee:

most of these half done cables i takin apart n fixin i got off dan ooops n they only got live/nutral in em. same as a couple of half done ones i got from somewhere else.

Hmm yeah sorting things that someone else started ain't always the easiest... but good luck wi it

[elretardo87]

I was being a spazz you don't want to botehr linking pin 1&3 unless its a signal cable not a speaker cable.

You find out which one is + and which is - by opening up the speakon end and seeing which one is plugged in which bit. It will say on the spakon housing which is + and which is -.

For wiring the jack the...the positive is the red wire in this diagram.

http://www.scotaudio.com/images/jack.gif

[MrAHC]

I was being a spazz you don't want to botehr linking pin 1&3 unless its a signal cable not a speaker cable.

You find out which one is + and which is - by opening up the speakon end and seeing which one is plugged in which bit. It will say on the spakon housing which is + and which is -.

For wiring the jack the...the positive is the red wire in this diagram.

http://www.scotaudio.com/images/jack.gifta mate no doubt i'll get confused with h diagram. tryin to use up all the odds n ends i got in my cable box..

any chance of that 3 sterio way x over diagam ? :love:

i owe u a drink or two of bushmills :love:

[elretardo87]

will do that the now need a bit more info.

[MrAHC]

will do that the now need a bit more info.
want to run it as 3 way sterio. not much more info i can give you coz i dont know what u need..

i realy need someone to sit down with me n show me but i dont have anyone like that who lives near me.

[MrAHC]

black & white which is + which is -?

i got black wire and white wire which is which?its proper speaker cable for speek on???

[elretardo87]

usually white is positive and black negative.

[MrAHC]

usually white is positive and black negative.


i'll take your word for it... :crazy_diz

ta mate. thats one cable complete.

[MrAHC]

On the XLR iI naow have white wired to number 2 and black wired to number 1.

[elretardo87]

1 is the earth for signal cables.

2 and 3 are your pos and neg respectively. Did you just ignore my first post :wink:

[MrAHC]

1 is the earth for signal cables.

2 and 3 are your pos and neg respectively. Did you just ignore my first post :wink:
was going off the diagram where it shows a red n black wire going to 1-=2. there are only a white n black wires in the cable i'm using. there is no third wire

fthis is fuckin hard work and very complicated.

i only got 2 wires a black one n white one? where do thay go?

dont know if i got the jack one right right now?

what about speakers i might have wired all them up wrong as well i always wire the stripey wire up to live. the one with the line running down it.

please just say yes or no dont run into lectures using big words. why the fuck cant fuckin twats at speaker n cable places use red n black like standard fuckin wire instead of what they feel like it.

its now took me 3 days to do nothing with 2 wires.

[MrAHC]

1 is the earth for signal cables.

2 and 3 are your pos and neg respectively. Did you just ignore my first post :wink:
so i stick the white one to #2 and the black one to #3?

i'm sorry about this but i'm realy thick with stuff like maths.

[noname]

open up the speakon, and see which pole the black and white are connected to (if you go round clockwise looking from the back of the connector, the first wire you come to will be the earth or -ve, and the next will be the signal or +ve)

You then wire the earth to pin 1 on the XLR, and the signal or +ve to pin 2 (3 is for balanced lines which have nowt to do with speaker cables so ignore it)


Oh yeah - quick edit. It doesn't actually matter if you get them back to front, as long as ALL the speaker cables you use are wired the same way (the worst you'll do is invert the signal - which only matters if you mix inverted with un-inverted), so don't give yourself too much white hair over it ;)