the colors are: Black and Black w/Red stripe

i want to say...all Black is (-) and Black w/Red strip is (+)

but some have it the other way around....anyone confirm this? i don't want to blow a fuse...

if anyone is confuse, it is the female adapter that sits on the mounting brackets for the front speakers....

This post has been edited by chacha: Feb 13, 2010 - 3:08 PM

All black is usually negative.

This post has been edited by SwissFerdi: Feb 13, 2010 - 1:54 PM

thanks...gosh, i feel like this was a worthless thread asking about the colors....ill change it....ill add in some pics....got me some 8" speakers....thanks to a member here and found it cheap on ebay for $165...looks great, but gotta figure some way to block the water from dripping into and onto the speakers themselves. gotta go to home depot

This post has been edited by chacha: Feb 13, 2010 - 3:08 PM

There really aren't many stupid questions, but it's still better to ask one rather than risking messing your car up in any way.

first hooking up the wires....





then it goes into the hole






this where i mount my cross over amp for the tweeters...anyone else do it differently? i used velcro







Kenwood Exceleron tweeters


almost done...test fitting, another cross over amp came with the speakers...built in tweeter on speakers...




the speaker fitted...





of course...all the testing and locations to place equipment...it only took me a day ....im exhausted and i found out my driver's side door is loose...the top part with the weather strip...its' very wobbly and isn't sturdy anymore....


all done but i couldn't test it out...why....no deck...it is coming in later...

update pics when deck and sound system working....

This post has been edited by chacha: Feb 13, 2010 - 7:43 PM

just for clarification - speakers don't use current like a light bulb would.. you cannot blow fuses by hooking up wires backwards - if you reverse polarity - then the speaker fires inwards rather than outwards or vice versa - just make sure left and right speakers match of they will be "out of phase"

thanks...i didn't know that...just trying to be safe...

Nobody seems to agree on this standard, but believe it or not the red stripe is actually negative (confirmed according to my multimeter).

For as long as I've known electronics, since I was a child, the only teachings I've ever had was that the stripe indicates negative.
Wires can be all sizes and colours, Usually it was white with a black stripe, but sometimes a grey stripe, sometimes a white stripe on a coloured wire, could be a green stripe, or a yellow stripe, or any coloured stripe. So when the stripe is red, does this make an exception to the rule? -- No, why should it? it's 1 out of an infinite number of colours, just as by that token positive and negative dont have to be red and black, they can be anything and anything.

It frustrates me when people put red terminals on the ends of a wire that has a red stripe

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reverse wiring would basically make the sound crappier. so make sure + and - are correct to get the best sound.