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From: correll@sun.udel.edu (Sharon J Correll)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: stereo speaker question
Message-ID: <12867@sun.udel.edu>
Date: 23 Jul 90 18:06:00 GMT
Reply-To: correll@sun.udel.edu (Sharon J Correll)
Organization: University of Delaware
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I have a question that should be (I hope) an easy one for electronics
buffs (which I am not).  I thought I'd be brave and put new speakers
into my car all by myself.  But the wiring isn't exactly the same.  The
old speakers were wired like this:

                               ------------------
                              |                  |
  -- red plain wire ------> |||                  |
  -- red striped wire ----> |||                  |
                              |      SPEAKER     |
                              |                  |
  -- white plain wire ----> |||                  |
  -- white striped wire --> |||                  |
                              |                  |
                               ------------------

(I believe that the striped wires go into both the woofer and the
tweeter, but the plain wires go into just one or the other.  Or it 
could be the other way around, I'm not sure.)

But my new speakers have only spots for two wires apiece.  I'm hoping
there is a way to stick some of the wires together to make it work, but
I don't know what that way would be.

Also the wires have little plastic covered things on the ends of them,
with little metal thingamabobs inside that fit onto the metal tabs on the
speaker.  But the metal tabs on the new speaker are bigger than on the
old speaker and so the thingamabobs won't fit around them.  Do I need to
buy new thingamabobs to go with the new speakers?  Or can I just cut the
wire and tape the bare ends to the metal tabs?

Thanks for any help anyone can give me.

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