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Default Speaker wire polarity.

FOAK wrote:
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ARE YOU ASKING FOR WIRE COLOR USED?
WHICH ONE USES THE RIB IN ZIP CORD? or
WHAT?

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I have two wires coming from my radio. The wires go to the speaker.

One wire is a solid color, the other wire is striped.

Which one goes to the positive terminal on my speaker and wich one goes
to the negative terminal?

It doesn't matter. Electrons can't see the stripe. But ...

If you have stereo, the left and right channels should be consistent.

If one of the speaker terminals is grounded at the speaker, you need
to connect that one to whichever terminal at the radio is grounded.

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