Connecting Banana Plugs To Speaker Cable

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Connecting banana plugs to speaker cable.

The most popular options are oddly and hilariously named banana plugs and spade plugs. You will need. Again be very careful to identify the positive wire and attach it to the correct plug. A basic speaker wire connector will unscrew for a few turns and then stop some can completely separate.

In other words you must expose. The five way binding post for pin connectors. Now you re ready to power on your receiver and adjust the settings and you won t have to cringe when you look behind it. The dual variety is just two banana plugs one for each wire in the pair of speaker wires stuck together in the same housing.

Their main benefits are that quicker and easier connections can be made as they simply plug into the speakers terminals additionally when fitted properly they ensure a solid and reliable electrical connection whilst minimising risk of shorting due to stray filaments of wire touching adjacent binding posts. In order to make this easy pull the wires. Banana plugs come in single and dual configurations. Speakers usually come with very long speaker wires.

How to install banana plugs. With the wire stripper get rid of a quarter of an inch of the insulator on the wire. Attach the negative plug to the side you re already working on then go to the other end of the wire and install the other set of plugs. If you re running the wire behind the.

When you re finished you will have a total of 4 banana plugs attached to your speaker wire. You will need to be able to work with each individual wire in the pair. With this type feed the bare speaker wire into the bottom end as far as it will go. How to use banana plugs with speaker wire 1.

To make it easy to identify which wire is positive and which is negative most banana plugs will have red or black markings. You can cut the wire into the length that is feasible for you. To connect the speaker wire to your speakers insert the red banana into the red binding post on your speaker and the black banana into the black binding post. A pin connector a spade lug and a banana plug.

The first thing you ll need to do is to cut the wire to the length you need.