Need a little help......

[Bobbie]

The Ike lite wire connection on my Grey Ghosts (on my Excal) broke inside the connector today. I took it apart and re-soldered it inside. I believe I have the correct polarity, red and white wires together and black alone. When I plug it back into the Excal I can barely hear the sounds. Could some damage to the headphones occurred when the wires broke and possibly crossed?

 

[Cupajo]

I have repaired a few connectors for my XL500 Garretts and the problem is to make sure to trim the cable back to solid wire and to avoid a cross connection (short) between the wires when re-soldering the wires to the sockets or pins!

If the cable is shielded the shielding has to be attached to the connector body and must not be shorted to one of the wires!

A continuity tester can help you test your soldering job.

I wouldn't expect the wireing problem to harm the speakers.

Good luck,

CJ

 

[Bobbie]

There is no shield, the wires are very tiny and the connection is well seperated with no glops of solder. This is a waterproof connector and is big and clunky for such tiny little wires.

 

[Steve from Ohio]

The Ike lite wire connection on my Grey Ghosts (on my Excal) broke inside the connector today. I took it apart and re-soldered it inside. I believe I have the correct polarity, red and white wires together and black alone. When I plug it back into the Excal I can barely hear the sounds. Could some damage to the headphones occurred when the wires broke and possibly crossed?

You have the wrong wires connected.

If you read the instructions that came with the gray ghosts, it will tell you which wires are needed for the correct impedance that matches to your machine.

I have done quite a few headphone modifications and that is a common problem when people try to just plug in the gray ghosts without changing the wires.

The sound is very faint and hardly can be heard. There is an impedance mis match and that is what is causing the gray ghosts to be so muted.

 

[Bobbie]

I no longer have the directions since the headphones are about 5 years old. I did not wire them in the first place, I only tried to wire what I saw that was left when I opened the connector. The red and the white were stuck together and the black was alone. I have the original Minelab headphones with the Ike lite connector and I opened it, the red and white wires are together and the black is alone.

 

[Sandpiper]

The Green and white wires inside an excal are grounds, as I have never wired a set of gray ghost phones and have no idea of color other than what you said. I would think that the white wire may be the ground wire and your black and red needs to go together. Have you a multi-meter if so measure in ohms from the white. to black ==== white. to red and see if you get even readings. That would be your two separate speakers. From what your saying you only have three wires, one wire must be a ground which has to split maybe in the phones to both speakers. Some headphone wiring will be shielded but most of the shielded wired are used in transmit to received applications to prevent interference from outside sources. Other than seeing it and putting a meter to it that

 

[grumpyolman]

Telephone the manufacturer and speak with one of their techs. They'll help.