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| Richard_Nixon:
Yah that looks right. But just letting you know, when you cut the ends off your cords the wire colors will be different from what you have on your diagram. Your black should be green. - Ground Your red should be white. - Neutral Your yellow should be black. - Hot (power) These are the same colors that are in your house wiring. (and Red is for 3 way switching and 240v, in house wiring) You might be able to use a single female quick connect electrical terminal instead of splitting one line into two and having to use marrettes/wire nuts. Look for the yellow size, depending on the cables your cutting, it might fit. You might have to go to an uninsulated connector if you have bigger cable. |
| Drnick:
If your monitor and PC use the same (Kettle) style power then just get a Y shaped power splitter. http://www.internationalconfig.com/icc6.asp?item=81415-Y2M We use them on all our Dual monitor setups at work. Then you only need 1 socket inside the machine. As for the Speakers rather then chopping up the existing cable you could get a 2.1 or 2.5mm socket and some cable and create your own connection. (Then you can still use the power brick should the need arise). |
| drventure:
--- Quote from: Drnick on February 24, 2012, 04:41:50 am ---you could get a 2.1 or 2.5mm socket and some cable and create your own connection. (Then you can still use the power brick should the need arise). --- End quote --- +1 I've done this on several occasions to avoid mangling the brick's cable. Radio shack usually has the necessary connectors |
| javeryh:
--- Quote from: Richard_Nixon on February 24, 2012, 12:05:07 am ---Yah that looks right. But just letting you know, when you cut the ends off your cords the wire colors will be different from what you have on your diagram. Your black should be green. - Ground Your red should be white. - Neutral Your yellow should be black. - Hot (power) These are the same colors that are in your house wiring. (and Red is for 3 way switching and 240v, in house wiring) You might be able to use a single female quick connect electrical terminal instead of splitting one line into two and having to use marrettes/wire nuts. Look for the yellow size, depending on the cables your cutting, it might fit. You might have to go to an uninsulated connector if you have bigger cable. --- End quote --- Thanks for the info - any chance you could post a picture of the connector? I was planning on cutting the cord, stripping the wires, twisting them together and wrapping in electrical tape. If there is a safer way where there is less chance of leaving a wire exposed I'm all for it. --- Quote from: Drnick on February 24, 2012, 04:41:50 am ---If your monitor and PC use the same (Kettle) style power then just get a Y shaped power splitter. http://www.internationalconfig.com/icc6.asp?item=81415-Y2M We use them on all our Dual monitor setups at work. Then you only need 1 socket inside the machine. As for the Speakers rather then chopping up the existing cable you could get a 2.1 or 2.5mm socket and some cable and create your own connection. (Then you can still use the power brick should the need arise). --- End quote --- Can you post a picture of the 2.1 or 2.5mm socket? I googled it but all I get are headphone looking things. The power cord for the speaker bar doesn't plug in like for example the PSP or something where it plugs into the actual device - the power cord coming from the speaker bar is hardwired in and is not removable but about 12" down the cord it has a connector that runs to the power brick. It's a little weird. You can kind of see it here: The green cord goes to the computer for sound. The black connector plugs into the wire that leads to the power brick. This thing: |
| bkenobi:
From: http://www.newark.com/jsp/search/productdetail.jsp?SKU=01M8008&CMP=AFC-GB100000001 I just searched google for "2.1 barrel plug". There's tons of them available and they're cheap. I like AllElectronics.com, but MCM and pretty much anyone else will get you set up. |
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