Silly question

[newb]

I am going to be making my own wires (once I move and put the speakers where they will live) and I noticed on my speaker wire that there is a stripe on one and not on the other.

I know black to black, red to red with the red being the HOT cable. Does the stripe signify a different twist or the Hot vs the neutral wire or anything I need to be conscious of?

Thanks all

 

[MinusTheBear]

I am going to be making my own wires (once I move and put the speakers where they will live) and I noticed on my speaker wire that there is a stripe on one and not on the other.

I know black to black, red to red with the red being the HOT cable. Does the stripe signify a different twist or the Hot vs the neutral wire or anything I need to be conscious of?

Thanks all

"+" = red

"-" = black

i have some speaker wire which has a white stripe on one wire and nothing on the other, on this speaker wire the white stripe represents the "-" negative terminal or black....hope this helps

 

[Johnd]

"+" = red

"-" = black

Or,

" + " = black

" - " = red



The purpose of the stripe is to avoid confusing polarity. The wires (l & r, or + & -) themselves are identical. Cheers, John

 

[Exit]

You need to keep the + and - straight when wiring your speakers because if you get it mixed up the speakers will be out of phase. This means the sound from one speaker will be canceling out some of the sound from the other speaker. The autocalibrate feature of some receivers does a check for this and notifys you of a setup error.

 

[MDS]

Still other wires have writing on one and nothing on the other...

It doesn't matter which one you use for positive and which one you use for negative as long as you use the same one for both ends to keep the polarity straight.

 

[markw]

I am going to be making my own wires (once I move and put the speakers where they will live) and I noticed on my speaker wire that there is a stripe on one and not on the other.

I know black to black, red to red with the red being the HOT cable. Does the stripe signify a different twist or the Hot vs the neutral wire or anything I need to be conscious of?

Thanks all

there's no divfference bttween either wire in that pair. That stripe exists merrely to help you assure that the plus (or red) on the amp goes the the plus (or red) on the speaker.

Of course, you can use either the stripe or no stripe for either the red or black, as long as you're consistent.

 

[j_garcia]

There is no "hot" wire in this case. As mentioned, as long as you are consistent, it doesn't matter what method you use to determine which is which.

 

[Johnd]

Well, now that we've got that straight. Six different responses all answering the same simple question all stating basically the same thing...in our own words. Kudos to all of you (errr, us).

 

[mtrycrafts]

... Six different responses all answering the same simple question

Certainly When you have a few options and a million words to pick from...

 

[newb]

Thanks!!!!

Thanks to everybody..... Your answers confirm my suspicions. About the wires, and the helpfulness of the users on this board.

It's all GOOD!

Thanks again