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Permalink Reply by Gary Ray on March 19, 2016 at 10:12am

I'm not seeing how you have wired that socket but look at this diagram.


The shield in your cable should be soldered to the -Negative/sleeve terminal and the signal wire should be wired to the +Positive/Tip terminal. The red in the picture indicates that those items are electrically the same. If you have the signal and shield soldered correctly, I am a bit bewildered because it should be no different than a on piece cable (electrically that is). There are only a couple of things that could go wrong. A Cold solder joint or two - fixed by remelting the solder and making sure there is no movement when it solidifies. A missing connection - fixed by soldering on the missing connection. Backwards connection where the shield and signal are on the wrong terminals - simply re-solder to the correct terminals.

Nice looking package, by the way.

Hope this helps,

Gary

Permalink Reply by Vinylhed on March 19, 2016 at 10:57am

Thanks Gary

Yeah, I realise that not being able to see the socket wiring doesn't help. I have them the right way round. I double checked them and actually used that exact same diagram. But you may well be right about the soldering, I'm pretty poor in that area. I'll give that a go tomorrow.

Thanks for your help, mate.

Hedley

Permalink Reply by Gary Ray on March 19, 2016 at 11:06am

You are welcome. It occurs to me to ask how old that cable is that you wired to the socket. As cable get old they can develop problems like this. It takes more than a couple of years but it can happen. Also, If you have an ohm meter or a continuity checker you can make sure the wiring is good from jack to plug. All you have to do is measure tip to tip and sleeve to sleeve. Those should read good continuity or 0 ohms. Then measure tip to sleeve which should read no continuity or infinite ohms. If you read anything besides infinite ohms when measuring tip to sleeve the wire is bad.

Permalink Reply by Vinylhed on March 19, 2016 at 11:24am

Brand new cable, sockets and jacks.

I'll have a think about getting a multimeter.

Cheers

Permalink Reply by Vinylhed on March 20, 2016 at 12:42am

Cheers for your input, Wayfinder.

Looks like a mulitimeter is needed.

Permalink Reply by Vinylhed on March 20, 2016 at 9:38am

We don't really have an equivalent to Harbor Freight in the UK. The large stores are also the most expensive. I've got small hardware shop which is great, and for anything else the internet can supply.