How To Solder Car Speaker Wires

Then remove wire insulation before joining the wires together and place the hot soldering iron over the wires to join them with an iron strip together to the speaker or amplifier terminal.

How to solder car speaker wires. Viewers are shown how to solder speaker lead wires to the terminals. Make your pigtails a bit longer than these in the pic for easier install. People suggested tinning the stripped speaker wire ends with some kind of solder and then soldering each of the ends to a spade connector.

How to wire new speakers when you are installing new speakers in your car or truck. Soldering will give you a better and longer lasting resultHere is a grea. Clips are the best way to go and the easiest to maintain.

A little solder can go a long way when fixing cables. Hold up both ends to form an X shape with the wire facing opposite directions. One last note speaker wire pairs are marked by some means so you can tell them apart.

Run the tip of the solder on top of the wire so it melts into the wires. Thu Jul 31 2008 550 pm. Its the act of using heat via a soldering iron and a fusible metal the solder to create the electrical connection.

WOOD magazine brought in a radio engineer to show you exactly how its done. The most reliable way of joining two wires together is by soldering. A good solution to save space behind the dash would be to get UNINSULATED tubebutt connectors cut out small sections of heat shrink and slide them over one wire end and after crimping wires seal the connection with a heat gun.

The thinner the solder the easier and faster it melts. Both are viable but the clip has the definite edge. Its especially important when youre working on your cars speakers and the like since easier methods can come undone so quickly.