OK, here is the deal.
I have never run across this situation before, and I really don't know
what to do about it.
A friend of mine has a Philips HTS6500 home theater DVD system. This
system includes two front satellite speaker enclosures. Each speaker
enclosure has three small full-range speakers inside of it. Each
enclosure connects to the main amplifier unit with a unique 6-wire
plug.
Somewhere along the way, BOTH of the front satellite speakers had most
of their wires (including the plug) cut off and thrown away. (Don't
ask...it's a long story.)
So I have two satellite speaker enclosures, with six (6) wires coming
out of each enclosure, and no plugs. NOTE: All six wires coming out
of the enclosures are different colors.
I have some replacement wire, and I have even found some replacement 6-
wire plugs (male & female socket pairs) that I can use. But I am
having trouble determining how to wire the speakers...READ ON...
I CANNOT open up the enclosures. They appear to be glued shut. I
would have to severely damage or even destroy the integrity of the
enclosures to be able to get inside of them to see which wires go to
which speaker. I cannot even remove the front speaker cloth to be
able to unscrew the speakers.
HERE IS MY QUESTION: Although I can determine, through process of
elimination, which wires are paired with which speaker, I still don't
know how I can prevent wiring one or more speakers in each enclosure
out of phase. I can get each of the three speakers in each enclosure
to start "making some noise", but I don't know how to observe the
proper "polarity" of each speaker so that all speakers in both of the
enclosures will be in phase.
Is there some method to "blindly" connect speakers in order to get the
phase correct?
I don't know if I am willing to trust one of these manual download
sites, and I don't even know if the service manual would have the
speaker wire hookup information I need in the first place, so I'm
stuck.
I told you this was a strange question....
As always, any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated.
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