Posts: 1535
From: Long Beach, CA USA
Registered: Dec 2008
posted March 08, 2016 12:35 PM
I need a few Elmo speaker adaptors that plug into the Elmo GS and then allow for a 1/4 inch speaker jack...i used to have 5 or 6, but people keep losing them...GRRRRRR.... I will pay obviously
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Posts: 1535
From: Long Beach, CA USA
Registered: Dec 2008
posted March 08, 2016 02:55 PM
yes 2 pin din male to plug into the projector and (since I am soldering) both 1/4 inch female and RCA female on the other end..If you can help me with directing me as to what solders to what. I'll make them up and post here so others won't get stuck like me.
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The wiring is simple: the flat spade on the DIN goes to the sleeve of the 1/4" female. The pin on the DIN goes to the tip on the 1/4". (an ohmmeter makes this much easier to figure out...)
An RCA female terminated cable should be easy to find. Terminating all this stuff into the DIN male would be awfully messy. I suggest either 1/4" or RCA on different cables.
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Posts: 1535
From: Long Beach, CA USA
Registered: Dec 2008
posted March 08, 2016 03:23 PM
Absolutely I am wasn't suggesting making one that could accommodate either, I meant making multiples for 1/4 inch and multiples for RCA........ Thanks, will do some ordering then some soldering......
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Posts: 7477
From: Manchester Uk
Registered: Aug 2012
posted March 09, 2016 09:06 AM
RCA plugs and sockets also are known as Phono plugs and sockets here in the UK.
In fact I've always referred to them here as Phono Connectors rather than RCA. I would say overall, here, this is what they are more commonly known as in the fraternity.
Is that the same in the U.S.?
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Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
posted March 09, 2016 09:23 AM
Actually here 1/4" plugs are often called "Phone Plugs" because they started out life over a hundred years ago on telephone switchboards.
-some things never go out of style!
Sometimes they are also called "Phono Plugs" as well. This is a goof since they actually have no direct involvement with phonographs.
I just know RCAs as "RCAs". (Could just be me!)
I do like them better than those wire clamp connections at the back of some amps.
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Posts: 7477
From: Manchester Uk
Registered: Aug 2012
posted March 09, 2016 10:29 AM
1/4 inch Jack plugs and sockets are known as just that alone here Steve, though obviously termed mono or stereo depending on how many insulating bands seperate the plug / socket.
Also known in our now modern day European existence as 6.3mm and the smaller kind 3.5mm.
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Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
posted March 09, 2016 10:41 AM
I'll see your "6.3mm" and raise you "0.05mm".
-I see them here as "6.35mm"!
Thomas Jefferson tried to introduce the Metric System here about 200 years ago...
-just didn't fly!
I don't mind either system, really. The problem I run into is working in a place where the construction people are all feet and inches and the science people are all centimeters and meters.
Engineering is caught in between!
A few times we've bought three times too much or 1/3rd as much as needed!
How we ever managed to build a half mile ring-shaped building and actually have it close on itself is almost a miracle!
"We missed by a Yard!" "No...a Meter!"
Twenty years later... "What's that strange corner?" "I think a phone booth used to be there."
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