Connectivity Issues?

Jun 18, 2007 3 Replies

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Larry

You could hook a 9V battery to the wires and then go to the other end and see which one is positive. Then you would know which wire is which.

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Hey all New to the group here and looking for some help please. I recently bought a house, the individual who had it built ran speaker wires all through out the house behind the walls and in the ceiling while it was being built.... ( cool I like this) It all comes from a distribution panel (similar to this

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) The speaker side of the wires are just hanging wires. I would like to connect them to a wall plate for a neater look ( simple enough right...) Now on to my question ( thanks for your patients) the wire he chose to use is a solid color the insulation is brown and the wire is twisted copper no distinguishing marks for + or - Is there a way to figure this out? Should the + side have any amount of voltage. The wires closest to the distro box I can ohm out and figure those out.. the ones on the other side of the house and outside im stumped.... any suggestions? Thanks in advance Jamie


You could hook a 9V battery to the wires and then go to the other end and see which one is positive. Then you would know which wire is which.

Damn...I knew there was a simple solution to this problem...I guess I was thinking about it to hard... Thanks Larry

Jamie

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