Join or sign in Register for your free TechRepublic membership or if you are already a member, sign in using your preferred method below. Use Your Email Use FacebookUse Linkedin

how to re-attach earphone’s wire?

Locked

i did a stupid thing that i cut my earphone’s wire
it was my favorite earphone from sony
now im trying to re-attach the two ends

but ive got three little wires inside of it
which are blue green and gold
i’ll be gladly to know which wire is for left side and which is for right

moreoever when i attach the same colored wire the sound won’t come out anymore
pleaes help…

Topic

Reply To: how to re-attach earphone’s wire?

In reply to how to re-attach earphone’s wire?

sorry the little wire colors are green, red and gold

Reply To: how to re-attach earphone’s wire?

In reply to how to re-attach earphone’s wire?

Hi,

If your earphones are the little button type, then I suspect that the wires are not separately sheathed in plastic, but are multistranded enamel insulated wire.

Two things that come to mind are that you have managed to “cross” a different color strand into another color, or that you haven’t removed the enamel from the wire and it is insulated.

To remove this insulation use solder with rosin core and touch to the end then leave the soldering iron on the wire, the heat will eventually burn the enamel off, leaving a cleanlt tinned end.

I don’t know which color is what, but if you simply connect like color to like color, then all should be OK.

Reply To: how to re-attach earphone’s wire?

In reply to Reply To: how to re-attach earphone’s wire?

ive trashed the earphones. didn’t understand what to do. i’ve got a new one now so its good, thanks.

thanks dude ill try

In reply to Reply To: how to re-attach earphone’s wire?

Im also having a sony ear phones walkman series
3days back one ear phone stopped working looose connection
Irritated me fully
and I pulled my ear phones into 3 pieces
& Iam trying to re-attach them
now ill try to heat it and remove the insulation because even i tried attaching those 3 colored wires but not working
so ill try
thanks dude….

Working super thanks dude….!!!

In reply to Reply To: how to re-attach earphone’s wire?

thanks alot dude
my ear phones are working………..
hurrey…..!!!

the three wires are one ground (silver) and the other two are right and left speaker outputs
so burn the ear phones so that the insulation will be removed and re-attach them as per the colors
main silver to both silvers from two speakers and red to red and green to green
so that totally u’ll get three insulations so insulate them carefully see that no two insulations touch each other.
It’ll work.

Enjoy Buddie’s……….

Reply To: how to re-attach earphone’s wire?

In reply to how to re-attach earphone’s wire?

Take a AA battery. Strip back the wires and take two of them.

Touch them to the battery terminals while you are wearing the earphones. Hold one fast and drag the other back and forth across the other battery terminal.

When you if you hear nothing in either earphone change one wire. When you hear scratching in the earbuds those two wires are for that ear.

Write the colors down.

Change wires till you hear the other ear.

You will note that one color is is common to both. That is the ground.

And no a 1.5v battery will not hurt the ear buds.

Now looking at a new 1/8″ Phone plug. The longest blade is the ground.

Lee

Reply To: how to re-attach earphone’s wire?

In reply to Reply To: how to re-attach earphone’s wire?

ive trashed the earphones. didn’t understand what to do. i’ve got a new one now so its good, thanks.

Reply To: how to re-attach earphone’s wire?

In reply to how to re-attach earphone’s wire?

Put the earphones on. Use a watch battery or perhaps even a CR2035 BIOS battery. Touch any two of the three wires onto the battery quickly and see which earphone (left or right) makes a click.

If the left one clicks, you have identified LEFT and COMMON. If the right one clicks, you have identified RIGHT and COMMON. If both click, you have identified LEFT and RIGHT. By a process of elimination you can then identify all wires correctly.

For example, if the first pair you try give you a click in the left ear, swap one wire for the third one. If the click moves to the right then the wire you DIDN’T swap is COMMON. If the click moves to both ears, the wire you DIDN’T swap is LEFT. Simple 🙂

Reply To: how to re-attach earphone’s wire?

In reply to Reply To: how to re-attach earphone’s wire?

ive trashed the earphones. didn’t understand what to do. i’ve got a new one now so its good, thanks.

Reply To: how to re-attach earphone’s wire?

In reply to how to re-attach earphone’s wire?

And since no one has mentioned if you can actually solder the wires together do not forget to place heat-shrink on each wire and over the entire joint before you even begin to attempt to solder the wires.

A lot of those button earphones use a conducting fibre that can not be soldered as it melts way below the temp of a soldering iron and they are very hard to join once the conductor has been cut.

Col

Reply To: how to re-attach earphone’s wire?

In reply to Reply To: how to re-attach earphone’s wire?

ive trashed the earphones. didn’t understand what to do. i’ve got a new one now so its good, thanks.

Reply To: how to re-attach earphone’s wire?

In reply to how to re-attach earphone’s wire?

This question was closed by the author

Exactly same problem dude….!!!

In reply to how to re-attach earphone’s wire?

Im also having a sony ear phones walkman series
3days back one ear phone stopped working looose connection
Irritated me fully
and I pulled my ear phones into 3 pieces
& Iam trying to re-attach them
now ill try to heat it and remove the insulation because even i tried attaching those 3 colored wires but not working
so ill try
thanks dude….

[Author]

Replies