How To Solder Car Speaker Wire

Thu Jul 31 2008 550 pm.

How to solder car speaker wire. Click to expand. 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. That is the key word maintain.

If you make Cold Solder Joints where blobs of solder are caked onto the wire this will not do a very good job and it wont be very permanent. Soldering is a process in which two or more metal items are joined together by melting and flowing a filler metal into the joint. It is also necessary to ensure longevity and secure connections.

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk. If black and red make red the positive lead and black the negative. Hold both ends and tightly twist each end around the other until theyre completely wrapped over each other.

DO NOT melt the solder by making direct contact with the soldering iron. A little solder can go a long way when fixing cables. Soldering also comes in handy for troubleshooting broken wires or incompatible wire ports.

Slide the existing wire into the open side of the connector then put the end of the wire you wish to connect to it into the other side. WOOD magazine brought in a radio engineer to show you exactly how its done. What i like to do is twist the wires roll them up in a little ball around itself then crimp that ball actually fuses the copper together and heatshrink over that whole setup.

Next is the quality of the solder joint. Solder wires on to the speaker with heat shrink and never worry about it. Selden touched on this.