well just hooked back up my sound system from my first civic...and i kno theres a way to use a battery to determine which wire is positive, and which one is negative...but i hear a pop sound on both ways of which might be positive and negative...i dont hear any distortion on either way plugging in the speaker wire the right way or wrong way but i just wanna make sure i got the positive with the positive and negative with the negative for safety..anyone can help mee

 

there are two simple ways to find out:1,pop the speaker,while you are poping it take a paper clip and bend it out straight,slide it through the hole in the grill,you will feel the paper clip either get pushed out(which is in phase)or it will pop inward,(out of phase),or hook up both speakers and listen with music,if bass sounds thin then try to reverse polarity of one of the speakers,you will hear a big improvment in the bass response,hope this helped

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by khabi khabi &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">there are two simple ways to find out:1,pop the speaker,while you are poping it take a paper clip and bend it out straight,slide it through the hole in the grill,you will feel the paper clip either get pushed out(which is in phase)or it will pop inward,(out of phase),or hook up both speakers and listen with music,if bass sounds thin then try to reverse polarity of one of the speakers,you will hear a big improvment in the bass response,hope this helped </TD></TR></TABLE>

Make sure you don't pop the speaker with 12volts. Like a drill battery. I seen people do it with a 18volt and pop there speaker. 9 volts or below is okay. also make sure that paper clip does not port your speaker. When the speaker pops out it could pucher itself. Take the panel off and do it right.

 

is there any other ways?? i cant put a paper clip through the front speaker grills because all my wires are allready grounded under the kick panels etc...and i tried listening very hard to the music....but i just cant differ either ways

 

its too hard to tell by hearing the speaker, Your going to have to pop the speaker to see if its moving in or out. when you apply dc current to it.

 

ok ima try and have someone help me...soo the paper clip going out means its the right way??

 

yes, be carefull. Don't port your speaker.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by cilvia &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">ok ima try and have someone help me...soo the paper clip going out means its the right way??</TD></TR></TABLE> Here is another way, listen to some music with some bass, [it does not have to be much] use the balance control to balance all the way to the left or right, and then back to the middle, if bass response is better when you are in the middle, [both left and right speakers working] then it is when only one of the speakers is working, [left or right] you are wired "in phase", if however, the bass response is better when you are balanced all the way to the left or right, then it is when in the center, you are wired "out of phase".

Although a speaker will have a pos. (+) and a neg. (-) terminal, the output from an amp is AC and it makes no difference how you wire the speakers, just as long as all the speakers are wired the same.

So if you find that you are wired "out of phase", [bass sounds better if only one speaker is playing then if both are] change the wiring on one of the speakers, [output from amp] it does not make any difference which one you change, the only difference will be if they are in or out of phase with each other.

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by cilvia &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> i cant put a paper clip through the front speaker grills because all my wires are allready grounded under the kick panels etc...</TD></TR></TABLE> What wires are grounded under the kick panels? 94

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by fcm &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> Here is another way, listen to some music with some bass, [it does not have to be much] use the balance control to balance all the way to the left or right, and then back to the middle, if bass response is better when you are in the middle, [both left and right speakers working] then it is when only one of the speakers is working, [left or right] you are wired "in phase", if however, the bass response is better when you are balanced all the way to the left or right, then it is when in the center, you are wired "out of phase".

Although a speaker will have a pos. (+) and a neg. (-) terminal, the output from an amp is AC and it makes no difference how you wire the speakers, just as long as all the speakers are wired the same.

So if you find that you are wired "out of phase", [bass sounds better if only one speaker is playing then if both are] change the wiring on one of the speakers, [output from amp] it does not make any difference which one you change, the only difference will be if they are in or out of phase with each other.

What wires are grounded under the kick panels? 94</TD></TR></TABLE>

soo even though my amp has +/- outputs, it wouldnt matter if i put the negative on the positive and positive on the negative as long as the wires connected to the speakers are correct with positive with positive and neg. with neg.?? and what does ac mean?? ..thanks

 

AC= alternating current, DC= direct current,.

No, it makes no difference how the speakers are wired at the amp, or the speaker, the only thing is that they are wired the same the same.
EG: if you connect the neg. (-) speaker lead, [assuming that the speaker wire you are using is somehow marked, "tracer"] to the pos. (+) term. on the amp, and then to the neg. (-) term. of the speaker on the left side, you must also wire it that way on the right side, the same goes if you connect the neg. (-) speaker lead to the pos. (+) term. on the amp and then the pos. (+) term. of the speaker on the left side, you must do the same on the speaker on the right.

The point is that all the speakers are wired the same way to be in phase, you can change the wires at the amp or at the speaker, if the left and right are out of phase, and as I said it makes no diff which speaker or channel on the amp you do it at. 94

 

HERE YOU GO.....RADIO TERMINALS (HONDA)


Wire Color Connects To
Red/ Green (+) front passenger’s door speaker
Blue/ Green (+) driver’s door speaker
Brown/ Black (-) front passenger’s door speaker
Grey/ Black (-) driver’s door speaker
Blue/ Yellow (+) left rear speaker
Red/ Yellow (+) right rear speaker
Grey/ White (-) left rear speaker
Brown/ White (-) right rear speaker


Red/ Black - lights-ON signal
White/ Blue - 12 V Battery power
Yellow/ Red - ACC switched power
Yellow/ Green - Radio switched power for antenna
Black - Ground