speaker terminal + or -

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Topic: speaker terminal + or -

Posted By: robblackman
Subject: speaker terminal + or -
Date Posted: May 12, 2004 at 10:21 PM

i have a early rockford fosgate punch 10 speaker how do i now which terminal is + or - the only indication i have is a purple mark by one terminal ?

thanks in advance

rob

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Posted By: stevdart
Date Posted: May 12, 2004 at 10:52 PM

Connect positive to terminals that are marked with a dot, to keep everything in phase. Technically, the terminal is not really positive or negative, but just indicated with a dot so that you'll wire everything up correctly. So normally, all positives to the dot and negatives to the blank one.

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Posted By: forbidden
Date Posted: May 12, 2004 at 11:12 PM

And to double check you can take a small AA battery and touch the positive lead on the battery to the dot terminal and the negative terminal on the battery to the other lead. If the dot is the positive, the speaker cone will move outwards. If it is the negative the speaker cone will move inwards.

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Posted By: T.Hill
Date Posted: May 12, 2004 at 11:32 PM

See, info like that is why I love this forum.

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