Yet another polarity question--please help
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Yet another polarity question--please help
Please help! I'm getting ready to put some Infinity speakers in my car (base stereo) this weekend, and I've done plenty of searching for the wire polarity. Here's what I've come up with for the front doors:
Non-Bose system, US model:
"Door left + R (red?) - W (white?) tweeter same
"Door right + Y/R (yellow/red?) - Y/R (yellow/red?) tweeter same"
As someone else noted previously, the right door information is ambiguous. It says Y/R for both positive and negative wires. Does anyone have the correct information?
Now for the rear doors:
"left rear + is purple and – is pink"
"right rear + is white/blue and - is black/blue"
Clear enough, but then I found this statement in another thread: “On the (right) side the white wire is ground, not black.” So which is correct? Is the negative wire white or black on the right side rear speaker?
And if no one knows the answer, is there a simple volt meter test? (Last time I tried this in a Miata, both postive and negative leads seemed to be live on my meter.) Thanks for the help!
Non-Bose system, US model:
"Door left + R (red?) - W (white?) tweeter same
"Door right + Y/R (yellow/red?) - Y/R (yellow/red?) tweeter same"
As someone else noted previously, the right door information is ambiguous. It says Y/R for both positive and negative wires. Does anyone have the correct information?
Now for the rear doors:
"left rear + is purple and – is pink"
"right rear + is white/blue and - is black/blue"
Clear enough, but then I found this statement in another thread: “On the (right) side the white wire is ground, not black.” So which is correct? Is the negative wire white or black on the right side rear speaker?
And if no one knows the answer, is there a simple volt meter test? (Last time I tried this in a Miata, both postive and negative leads seemed to be live on my meter.) Thanks for the help!
Last edited by Hard 8; 11-30-2004 at 05:44 PM.
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Possibly.....
I'm pretty sure I created some of that confusion, so here is my second run at it -
front left = red+ white-
front right = black/white+ red/yellow-
(this is the tweeters, the main door speakers have no color code,
they are polarized by the connector, nearest to the 'grip' is negative.)
rear left = violet+ pink-
rear right = white/blue+ black/blue-
(tweeters same colors.)
centre tweet = blue/black+ green/yellow-
This is for the Bose system, my diagram doesn't have the 'base', so if you get in there and see Orange wires or something, you are on your own! :o
S
front left = red+ white-
front right = black/white+ red/yellow-
(this is the tweeters, the main door speakers have no color code,
they are polarized by the connector, nearest to the 'grip' is negative.)
rear left = violet+ pink-
rear right = white/blue+ black/blue-
(tweeters same colors.)
centre tweet = blue/black+ green/yellow-
This is for the Bose system, my diagram doesn't have the 'base', so if you get in there and see Orange wires or something, you are on your own! :o
S
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Run a Voltmeter across the terminals that connect the wires to the speaker (with the speakers connected). If you get a Positive Voltage, then the prong on the voltmeter that corresponds to positive (usually red) is connected to the positive terminal on the speaker which should be connected to the positive wire. If you get a negative voltage, then the terminal you are touching with the Voltmeter prong is the negative.
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Cool; thanks. I guess my last lingering doubt concerns whether the negative wire is white or black on the right side rear speaker. I'll use this test to answer it.
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