On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:27:16 +0200, EdorFaus wrote:
On 10/11/2011 07:46 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Does it matter that I touched both color wires of each one to
the terminals?
This may be my problem. When I cut one strand of wire, there are
already
2 types of wire, copper and red/green. Maybe I should use THOSE 2
instead of 2 separate strands of 2?
Let me see if I understand you correctly: you have two lengths of
headphone wire, both of them with two wires in it (one not-insulated
plain copper, and one insulated (with a color)), and you have
connected both wires of one length to + on the battery and + on the
Ben, and both wires of the other length to - on the battery and - on
the Ben? And neither length is connected to the other?
If so, this should not be a problem in itself, as long as there is an
electrical connection - but you should only really need one wire for
each of + and -, so you could instead use just one length and e.g.
connect the uninsulated wire to - on both, and the insulated one
(after stripping some of its insulation) to + on both.
Or if you prefer to use two lengths, you could connect just one wire
from each (e.g. the uninsulated copper wire).
In either case you need to be careful so that + and - don't touch
each other anywhere - there must be some isolation between the two.
One thing you can try is, after connecting the wires to the battery,
measure the other ends of the wires to see if there's a good voltage
there. If not, there either isn't a good connection between the wires
and the battery, or (at least one of) the wires is broken.
To figure out which wire has the problem, you can measure between the
other end of the + wire and the - connector on the battery (or vice
versa), if that gives a good voltage then that wire should be OK.
Once you've connected the wires to the Ben, you can measure on its
contacts to see if there's a good voltage there - if there is, you
should be good to go (as long as you haven't gotten + and -
reversed).
Oh ok I did not know I have to strip the colored wire because that
means insulation. I will try again using only 2 wires. Thanks
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