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KDW32
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Ferrule crimp is that what you've seen? It's always good to double/triple check your work. A cheap 'AV cable tester' from Amazon or ebay with the speakon sockets on it can be very helpful to reduce paranoia.
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SnailSpace
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Yeah looks like Ferrule Crimp here’s the video https://youtu.be/cOvtE1xmXXc
Thanks will look into a AC Cable Tester
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KDW32
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AV not AC Like this .. https://amzn.eu/d/7XWsgaH I go through one of these a year. You can find cheaper ones with out 8 pole Speakon. Also fast checking signal cables. Saves a lot of time. The tester will last you a lot longer than for me I think. The state some of our cables come back in I've moved all our speakons over to nl4fxx as I find sketchy NL4. I have a whole bin of failed XLR signal etc that are no longer a causing problems at events thanks to those testers.
Edited by KDW32 - 15 August 2023 at 9:42pm |
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SnailSpace
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Was just doing one of the last 5mm2 cables into a NL4FX and I found removing the little metal (shoe horn) thingy then inserting it once the wire is in a lot easier! Shame I found it out on my last 2 cables typical always the way!
But I’ll get a cable tested as I imagine moving cables or worse if a cable gets squashed/damages it will show too! (I don’t even want to think of cables getting damaged the cost of it )
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RoadRunnersDust
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If you look at the recent post on here about terminating speakons you’ll find a lot of info you’ll wish you had before starting 😂
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SnailSpace
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Sorry I mean I got 4.0mm2 not 5mm but yeah I still found that hard going into NL4FX. It’s the actual bare strands going into the hole I found the trickiest part of the whole process of doing this Sound System, I saw all kinds of videos showing solder or twist but only saw the video about the ‘Ferrule Crimps’ yesterday, I’ve just looked at the other Post you refer to and yes that definitely would have been handy knowing that post existed is like wiring a Plug and realising you haven’t put the screw end on and having to redo the whole thing…something else I did a few times! Oh well another chapter for my forthcoming book ‘Sound System - Learning The Hard Way!’
Edited by SnailSpace - 16 August 2023 at 8:32am |
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