soldering rca's

[5150 10+ year member]

Is soldering a RCA easy? I have soldered many things before just never RCA's...

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[Acidburn 5,000+ posts]

yes

 

[ANeonRider 10+ year member]

Why are you soldering them and what are you soldering on them?

 

[5150 10+ year member]

I am putting them on the end of a cable....

 

[ANeonRider 10+ year member]

Make sure to use some heatshrink on the ends too.

 

[5150 10+ year member]

thanks for the advice, when I buy cable to do it what kind should I buy?

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

Belden makes some quality interconnect cable...Monster is good but overpriced.

 

[Pete 10+ year member]

Belden 1505A cable and F-Conn FS59RCAU compression fittings.

Best RCA cables I have ever used, except for being a touch bulky and a little stiff.

Performance is far better than anything I have used and, unlike solder-on ends, it maintains a 75ohm capacitance (that means no signal reflection //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif )

 

[ExS 10+ year member]

hey thats pretty good idea. i might give it a try

 

[Pete 10+ year member]

A little bit of information I learned wiring countless racks at work for home automation and crazy dedicated theaters.

I can make a pair custom length for ya for pretty cheap, let me know if you're interested.

I even had a crestron touch panel running the system in my car for awhile.

More mobile audio equipment needs rs232 or rs484 if you ask me. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[Acidburn 5,000+ posts]

I even had a crestron touch panel running the system in my car for awhile.

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More mobile audio equipment needs rs232 or rs484 if you ask me. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

care to explain?

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

standard interfaces...an RS232 port is commonly used on control/signal interfaces. Never heard of the other one, but I'm sure it does the same thing.

 

[Acidburn 5,000+ posts]

uhhh....

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

you know a serial port?

that's an RS232 interface. I don't know about it in detail, but that's what it is.

 

[Acidburn 5,000+ posts]

oh, alrighty, lol, i think i get it