earphone output

[steve]

I had tried to attach a new earphone to a walkman.

The earphone is made in china, and its plug is not compatible with the
walkman input.

After cutting the wire, I replaced the plug with a correctly sized
one.

However, there is no response from the speakers, not even a beep.

Please note that the earphones were alright before the cutting.

Anybody have any clue what happened..?

Thanks.

Steve

 

[Flaps_50!]

On Mar 26, 3:17 am, steve <kvst...@gmail.com> wrote:

I had tried to attach a new earphone to a walkman.

The earphone is made in china, and its plug is not compatible with the
walkman input.

After cutting the wire, I replaced the plug with a correctly sized
one.

However, there is no response from the speakers, not even a beep.

Please note that the earphones were alright before the cutting.

Anybody have any clue what happened..?

You wired it up wrong.

 

[stan]

On Mar 27, 6:58 am, "Flaps_50!" <Morefl...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mar 26, 3:17 am, steve <kvst...@gmail.com> wrote:> I had tried to attach a new earphone to a walkman.

The earphone is made in china, and its plug is not compatible with the
walkman input.

After cutting the wire, I replaced the plug with a correctly sized
one.

However, there is no response from the speakers, not even a beep.

Please note that the earphones were alright before the cutting.

Anybody have any clue what happened..?

You wired it up wrong.

Wired wrong. Wrong type of earphone. (maybe you are trying to use a
mono headphone in a stereo jack socket?) Broken wire? Short circuit
where wires connect to plug? Plug is NOT the right size after all
(e.g. tip is too short to reach or the tip and sleeve of the plug are
not in the correct relation ship to make contact within socket.
You can test the connections from earphone to plug by very momentarily
connecting a 1.5 volt battery to the two wires. If it clicks the
circuit from plug to head phone is OK. Remember touch the battery only
'momentarily' (just a quick touch!).

 

[amdx]

"steve" <kvsteve@gmail.com> wrote in message
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I had tried to attach a new earphone to a walkman.

The earphone is made in china, and its plug is not compatible with the
walkman input.

After cutting the wire, I replaced the plug with a correctly sized
one.

However, there is no response from the speakers, not even a beep.

Please note that the earphones were alright before the cutting.

Anybody have any clue what happened..?

Thanks.

Steve
Did you reconnect 4 wires or two wires?

I'll bet a nickel it was two.
Mike

 

[stan]

On Mar 27, 6:00 pm, "amdx" <a...@knology.net> wrote:

"steve" <kvst...@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:122f8adb-aed4-43ac-9134-a089101298a5@j9g2000prh.googlegroups.com...



I had tried to attach a new earphone to a walkman.

The earphone is made in china, and its plug is not compatible with the
walkman input.

After cutting the wire, I replaced the plug with a correctly sized
one.

However, there is no response from the speakers, not even a beep.

Please note that the earphones were alright before the cutting.

Anybody have any clue what happened..?

Thanks.

Steve

 Did you reconnect 4 wires or two wires?
I'll bet a nickel it was two.
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Or 3 if a common or shield?????

 

[Allen Bong]

On Mar 25, 10:17 pm, steve <kvst...@gmail.com> wrote:

I had tried to attach a new earphone to a walkman.

The earphone is made in china, and its plug is not compatible with the
walkman input.

After cutting the wire, I replaced the plug with a correctly sized
one.

However, there is no response from the speakers, not even a beep.

Please note that the earphones were alright before the cutting.

Anybody have any clue what happened..?

Thanks.

Steve

Some of the "China Made" earphones use enamelled wires of different
colors. Normally there will be 4 wires and 2 of them are of the same
color. Connect the same colored wires together to the sleeve and the
other 2 different colored wires to the tip and ring.

Don't forget to scratch the wires with sand paper and tin it properly
before soldering.

Some more info is available here:

http://www.ehow.com/how_114206_replace-headphone-plug.html

http://everything2.com/?node_id=1398951

Allen

 

[steve]

Thanks to everyone for their views.

These goddamm wires are so tiny, I cannot see whether there are two,
three or more.

Will get back soon as I locate the magnifying equipment

Steve

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On Mar 27, 5:00 pm, "amdx" <a...@knology.net> wrote:

"steve" <kvst...@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:122f8adb-aed4-43ac-9134-a089101298a5@j9g2000prh.googlegroups.com...



I had tried to attach a new earphone to a walkman.

The earphone is made in china, and its plug is not compatible with the
walkman input.

After cutting the wire, I replaced the plug with a correctly sized
one.

However, there is no response from the speakers, not even a beep.

Please note that the earphones were alright before the cutting.

Anybody have any clue what happened..?

Thanks.

Steve

 Did you reconnect 4 wires or two wires?
I'll bet a nickel it was two.
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