Anyone made a headphone adapter for the Garrett headphones?

[RHorseUSMC]

I actually bought that parts from Garrett and made one and it works well but has since developed a short. After repairing it I decided to make another one, this time by just cutting off the connector from the Garrett headphones. There are 3 wires, red, black and white. I know this is a mono detector. I bought a new female headphone jack from Radio Shack to solder to the wires. I can get the headphones to work with the wires placed in 2 different configurations. Does it really matter which way (of the two that work) that I solder these up? I just keep thinking about back in the day when I messed with car stereos and series and parallel wiring and how it would change the speaker impedance. Maybe I'm looking into this too much? There are 3 connections on the new female jack. I'm thinking that red is right and black is left for the speakers, white would go to the ground? Thanks for the help!

 

[metalhead]

Man, I haven't got a clue.I don't mess with that stuff, but then again, I've never really been much of a tinkerer. I think thats' awesome that you made your own headphone adapter for the Infinium. I hope somebody's able to chime in with some help for ya. Good luck with that.Happy Hunting!

 

[bearkat4160]

Black is negitive..the other 2 are right/left. Or you could wire it up in mono by combining the red/white together...perhaps? Good luck.

Alan

 

[RHorseUSMC]

since most headphones use a TRS connector, the sleeve would be the ground. When I hooked the black wire to that, the headphones don't work unless you pull the connector out partially (eliminating the ground connection). Red and black work on either of the of the other two connectors (tip and/or ring), I just wasn't sure if it mattered which way. I guess since it's a mono machine, it won't matter?

 

[bearkat4160]

Well, when I wired up my external headphones for the Infinium I just used 2 wires to deal with, not 3. All my Infinium headphones are mono and have 2 wires. Strange you have 3 to deal with.

 

[RHorseUSMC]

what was throwing me off was I have to different aftermarket headphones I tested. It would works with one, but not the other. It was that aftermarlet headphones that were wired differently. If anyone wants a .pdf file of the diagram, I can email it to you.

 

[ScottTX]

If you are electronically challenged, like me, or just don't want to mess with it you can get one here Home Computers LLC. e-mail Reid at homecomputers@cox.net and tell him what you need. Thing looks great and works the same way.