check neg...pos

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Topic: check neg...pos

Posted By: dirtylooks
Subject: check neg...pos
Date Posted: August 31, 2004 at 9:13 PM

what do u use to check polarity of speakers other than a battery........like if you r changing out factory speakers and u dont know what colrs r what

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Posted By: auex
Date Posted: August 31, 2004 at 9:19 PM

Uh, a battery, or wiring diagram? What other way would you do it?

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Posted By: jeffchilcott
Date Posted: August 31, 2004 at 9:25 PM

look up the colors of the wires on this site In the vehicle wiring database

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Posted By: dirtylooks
Date Posted: August 31, 2004 at 9:45 PM

thanks guys

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Posted By: Asmodeus
Date Posted: September 02, 2004 at 10:36 PM

A battery is the best and simplest way to do it...

Get at least a AA bat....Solder wires to each end as long as you want them

Touch the leads off the batt to the connection on the speaker....

If the speaker Pushes outward then the wire hooked to the positive pole of the battery is the positive terminal of the speaker and of course the Negative of the batt is the negative of the speaker...

If the speaker Goes in..Then Vice versa of what I listed above...

Simple Easy Inexpensive....

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