[slimer]

I should already know this, but I'm having a brain cramp right now. On most speaker wire one of the strands usually has a white line going through it. Does this white line mean negative or positive? I'm pretty sure it's negative, but I just wanted to verify it is.

Thanks

 

[ooheadsoo]

Negative, but it doesn't matter, you just need to be consistent.

 

[slimer]

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Originally Posted by ooheadsoo Negative, but it doesn't matter, you just need to be consistent.

I understand the consistency part but sometimes there are situations where one of the ends is terminated so that you can't tell. So in those cases I assume the strand with the white line is negative right?

 

[ooheadsoo]

IIRC, typically, the one with the line (any color) is negative. This, for whatever reason, doesn't seem to hold true for case switch and light leads, but other than those cases...

 

[audiomortis]

I've been making the lined or marked wire my + My logic is that on speakers, the + terminal is normally marked with a red dot or something.

 

[Oink1]

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Originally Posted by audiomortis I've been making the lined or marked wire my + My logic is that on speakers, the + terminal is normally marked with a red dot or something.

Me too - as long as it's the same @ speaker and amp though it doesn't matter afaik (all the cables i have bought pre terminated were + tracer - no tracer)

 

[sr20dem0n]

I always treat the wire that has markings or has the most vibrant color as + (green and grey, green is +; striped and non-striped, striped is +; red and black, red is +). It doesn't matter at all what you do as long as you do the same thing at the speaker end as you do at the amp end.

 

[Wimmig]

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Originally Posted by sr20dem0n I always treat the wire that has markings or has the most vibrant color as + (green and grey, green is +; striped and non-striped, striped is +; red and black, red is +). It doesn't matter at all what you do as long as you do the same thing at the speaker end as you do at the amp end.

Correct.