I need major wiring help. Installing new system soon, clueless on what I need!

[jrwalte 10+ year member]

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif Remote wire doesn't need fused. It's 'fused' by the HU by means of the fuse from the car or its own fuse.

 

[Chowder Head 10+ year member]

Bump for an extremely noobish questions. I gotta ask it though, only way to learn right?

Alright. I got my Seas Neo aluminum tweeters in today (look great by the way) and had a few questions on....how to wire them.

1. On each side there is a negative and positive. On each side, there's two probes sticking out. One prob looks like it's simply sticking up and one looking like a fatter prob, with a small hole in the middle at the top. My questions are what prob gets connected and how do you go on about doing that? If it helps, I can snap some pictures. I've been looking for a simple picture of a hooked up tweeter but to no avail.

2. Lastly, since I forgot about tweeters having a negative and positive side, does this mean I have to run 2 speaker wires for EACH tweeter? And I'm guessing the mids have negative and positives sides as well? So in each door panel, I need 4 speaker wires, 2 for the tweets and 2 for the mids?

I'm sure these questions that should be common sense but I'm not that used to wiring electronics, ha. I'm good under the hood but not so much when it comes to audio. Well for right now at least. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

Thanks again in advance for any assistance and I appreciate the patience you guys are having with me. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[jrwalte 10+ year member]

2) Yes, you have to run 2 pairs of speaker wires to each door. Make sure to label the wires on both ends before you run it so you know which wire run belongs to what so you properly wire your amp and your speakers. Don't want to wire a tweeter on the amp where it should of actually been the mid and the HU will send the mid freq to the tweeter.

 

[FurbiesAndBeans 10+ year member]

Well speaker wire comes with two strands of wire, so for one tweeter its one run of speaker wire. for the mid its another.

Pictures will help on your first question

 

[Chowder Head 10+ year member]

Well speaker wire comes with two strands of wire, so for one tweeter its one run of speaker wire. for the mid its another.
Pictures will help on your first question

Oh seriously? Is this true for all speaker wire, especially the one I'm thinking about getting which would be the regular 12 gauge stuff? http://www.knukonceptz.com/productDetail.cfm?prodID=KAR12SS

Uploaded two picture that show each prode. Which one do I use? And how do I attach the piece of wire to it? Lastly, what is the deal with the hole in the middle on the back? The inside looks threaded. I'm guessing that could be used to mount it?

Never mind the table, I have to clean it soon, haha.

Thanks again you two! Oh, and cope, I haven't seen anything that compares the Bi-wire to the regular SS wire. I looked too but to no avail.

 

[matador_de_sa 10+ year member]

http://www.knukonceptz.com/productDetail.cfm?prodID=KOL18BL remote wire i use

 

[jrwalte 10+ year member]

one prong is the positive, one prong is the negative. It should have a + and - somewhere to identify which is which (I suspect it is on the label. I see a - to the left of one of the prongs). You'll get a female wire crimp that is designed to connect to that male prong. You can find this at most electronic stores: Radio Shack, Lowes, Home Depot.

 

[Chowder Head 10+ year member]

Alright, I think I now understand. I searched my shed and what do you know, I found some connectors and some butt connectors. The crimps I found look exactly like this. I believe I found out they are called spade terminals. Is this correct?

http://www.doityourself.com/invt/3720620

In fact, they slide onto the probes (the ones with the hole at the top) perfectly. Is that pretty much it? Then run some speaker wire into the hole with the rubber piece on it and crimp it down? Should I wrap the tweeter prob, the metal that is showing after the rubber material with electric tape or something? Or would it be fine like that?

And I'm guessing these probs are similar to mids as well?

I see on my blue/white remote turn on wire, Pioneer left it as a female spade connector. I'm guessing I just get a male spade connector and simply plug that into the female, and run that to my amp?

Thanks for that link, matador. Didn't know they had some. Looks like this will be a complete order after all, ha.

Thanks again for the help guys. Maybe this electric stuff isn't that hard after all. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif