Speaker wires

[PaintyLiz]

Hi all!

Maybe somebody can help me with this. I took a speaker down to move it over a little, and forgot to pay attention to how the wires were hooked up. There is a red and a black terminal, the wires are black and green. I'm assuming black is black and green is red and that's how I hooked it up. So if I'm wrong, I still have time to fix it.

Any idea? I don't want to have to take the other one down to look at it, apparently I pigtailed some plain old silver speaker wire on to it last time i fiddled around with things and I'll have to trace it back.

Liz

[LJAZ]

The black wire is most likely the ground. The black terminal on the speaker is the ground. If you look closely the terminals are probably marked + & -.

Even if you hook them up the wrong way it won't hurt anything. You might not even notice the difference.

[PaintyLiz]

Oh good!! I thought if they were backwards it killed the speaker. Whew! One less thing to keep me awake at night lol

Thank you so much!

[jtwcummins]

The only thing that happens if the wires are backwards is a fuzzyness to the sound, It's surprising how many vehicles, auto and rv, have them reversed from the factory.