How To Solder Car Speaker Wire

Audiophiles recommend soldering speaker wires for optimal speaker performance and high sound fidelity.

How to solder car speaker wire. You should be fine soldering it provided you know how to solder using the proper wiresurface prep the right tipheat settings solder type and know how to flow solder. Apply heat with a hot soldering tip to both the wire and the speaker wire tab. In this video tutorial viewers learn how to solder speaker lead wires.

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk. Both are viable but the clip has the definite edge. Soldering wont give out due to vibrations and bumps and heat-shrink will give you that professional touch.

If black and red make red the positive lead and black the negative. Twisting wires together and then covering them with heat-shrink wrap or electric tape will suffice for car. Hi I have some questions concerning wiring the speaker Weber 12 Alnico Blue Dog in my 1X12 cabinet.

Selden touched on this. Solder wires on to the speaker with heat shrink and never worry about it. Solder cold flows so with time temperature changes and vibration will allow soldered wire in screw terminals to loosen.

Also solder creates a hard spot along the wire so in portable systems or anyplace that the wires vibrate the wire could fracture at that hard spot. Thu Jul 31 2008 550 pm. Allow to cool briefly and repeat for the other wire.

Hold both ends and tightly twist each end around the other until theyre completely wrapped over each other. Soldering is a process in which two or more metal items are joined together by melting and flowing a filler metal into the joint. This video also shows how to solder two wires together and how to solder a wire to a slip on terminal.