Speaker wire colors
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Speaker wire colors
Does anyone know what speaker wire colors are + and - behind the speakers on a 1992 ford ranger supercab. They are not the same color as behind the radio are. Cant tell which are + and -. Please help. My sound cuts out at high volume, but radio stays on.
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Speaker wire colors
Well I know I'm not really going to be too much help because I honestly don't know. But my suggestion would be to go somewhere and get this one thing that almost looks like a screwdrive with a pointy tip and a light bulb in the handle and a wire with an aligator clamp on it. Then you clip it to some kind of ground and start touching the wires. One should light that bulb and the other shouldn't. The one that lights up should be your positive. Goodluck.
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For the last 8 or so years the color coding behind the radios has been similar for almost all radios. But at the speaker ends it's anyones guess. But a good rule of thumb is that the color of both lines for each speaker is the same. For example the right rear "might" be violet for both lines but the positive is usually a solid color and the ground has a trace (stripe) of black, white, or yellow. The same is true of the wires behind the radio. If someone changed the wires then all bets are off. If the factory ends were cut off for aftermarket speakers it's possable they were put on backwards I have seen that often. And it can causes all kinds of weird problems.
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does anyone know which wires mean what on a 94 ford explorer XL, normal tape deck....its the square connector....and im guessing this is the speaker wire connector....but of course i could be wrong(i hope not)....so could someone help me out, or tell me where i might be able to find this info
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Unless you have a factory amp, they're the same colors at the speakers as they are behind the deck.. Now, if someone has cut off the factory connector behind the radio, and you have to patch the new deck into the facotry wiring without one of the conversion pieces.. I'd suggest getting a haynes manual and looking in the wiring diagrams.
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