Wire Direction ??

[dleccord 5,000+ posts]

my friend wants to know if wire has a direction or does it not matter which end you wire them? this goes for all kinds of wire(braided or straight stranded, or twisted) thanks

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[revrider1 5,000+ posts]

The only wires that I know of that have direction are RCA's

 

[dleccord 5,000+ posts]

what rcas?

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

my power wire has arrows on it.

 

[revrider1 5,000+ posts]

Some RCA interconnects have the arrows facing the signal flow. I know some Stingers and Rockfords have them.

 

[dleccord 5,000+ posts]

well what do you guys think? i think they are just conductors, simply put and the electrons or what not theory is a different theory

 

[revrider1 5,000+ posts]

Some wire is directional, for real^^^

 

[revrider1 5,000+ posts]

well how do they manage to make wire directional? never heard of it

I dont know how they manage it, but it is out there. I have mainly seen RCA wires like this.

 

[revrider1 5,000+ posts]

I cant think of any strand wire off the top of my head right now...

 

[yacob.naif 10+ year member]

rca jacks are just terminals, same as any other speaker terminal, the pin is the positive terminal, and the jacket is the negative. Just regular wires like anything else.

I HAVE seen rca cables with directonal arrows, tho, i have no idea why, could have something to do with the way the strands are arranged, or braided, who knows. I have a monster cable SPDIF cable that has arrows, as well as a home theater subwoofer preamp rca interconnect that also has arrows.

 

[revrider1 5,000+ posts]

I once ran RCA cables, witout knowing they were directional, I had to pull them all out and rerun them //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/furious.gif.fc81ca146dbff91fede3ed290dbc4f4c.gif

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

Some wire is directional, for real^^^

No they aren't.

What they do have, that makes them "directional", is a ground wire that you're supposed to ground at one end. They're supposed to be grounded at the source unit side IIRC. But it's the grounding that makes them "directional", not the wire. The wire/interconnect itself is non-directional. But it's marketing more than anything, as I've yet to see any proof that the "drain wire" does anything useful in a car audio enviornment.

So to answer the original question....no, wire is not directional at all. Physical impossibility.

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

I once ran RCA cables, witout knowing they were directional, I had to pull them all out and rerun them //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/furious.gif.fc81ca146dbff91fede3ed290dbc4f4c.gif

If you're serious, then //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/hilarious.gif.02a037aad04aa96f19982b298a3d70a8.gif

 

[revrider1 5,000+ posts]

Some RCA's are directional, unless I had the only pair...

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

Some RCA's are directional, unless I had the only pair...

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