Need Speaker Help FAST!

[KillJoy]

I have search and searched for a specific, but cannot find it.

Id listed the Front and Rear Speaker wires, and which was Pos and which was Neg.

Anyone have this....especially for the rears???


KillJoy

[CRUZTAKER]

There was a ton of discussion on this topic in the early days of this site. Some ended with hurt feelings as we NEVER did fully agree. Apparently everyone had their own opinion.

I won't say what I did, because some will swear I am wrong. It doesn't matter that I work with DC voltage and polarity specific eq. in the telecom for 20+ years.....

Try this, and make up your OWN mind.;)

Put a volt meter on the speaker leads with the radio on. Set for DC voltage, and observe which of your lead combinations, (red or black), give you a reading of +12v. Actually it may be higher or lower, but that doesn't matter.

[jayro]

If I recall correctly doing mine, one wire was plain the other striped. The striped is Pos. But I am almost certain FMC didn't mix up this scheme. Either way, as long as all 4 speakers are wired CONSISTENTLY (i.e. striped wire to Pos) then it doesn't matter if they happen to be reversed on all 4 speakers. As long as they are all pushing out and pulling in together.

Besides, some speaker manufacturers wind their voice coil one direction while others go the other way, so your speakers might be opposite of stock anyway. If all 4 speakers are from same manufacturer, then no worries, just put the striped to Pos for all 4. If mixed set, then I'd strongly encourage doing a DC test (low voltage!) to verify if Pos. to Pos. pushes the speaker out or pulls it in for each of the sets.

Hope this helps!

[shakes_26]

rf + = white/Light Green
lf + = Orange/Light green
rr + = Orange/Red
lr + = Grey/ Light Blue

I assume you'll understand the other wire attahced to the spkr is the neg (-)

Have fun!