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Installing the Jacks onto the mounting PCB’s
If you have it, an 11/32” nut driver
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can make assembly much easier. You’ll assemble the
four identical copies of the following. Please note that:
Two will be built using red-insulator jacks, used for the right channel
Two will be built using white-insulator jacks, used for the left channel
Note that orientation of the curved surface of the “hot” terminal.
Figure 2-One of 4 jack-fields, before addition of ground wires
Here’s a hint about getting the jacks in the right position and tightened up. Get the jack,
ground lug, and nut finger tight and on “10 o’clock”. Take the last partial turn with a nut
driver. With a bit of practice, the partial turn makes everything tight, and sitting in the
right position.
Adding the Ground Wires and 0.01 µF capacitors
Figure 3 shows our goal at the end of this section. A similar result is constructed with
white insulator RCA jacks for the left channel.
Figure 3-Right Channel Jacks with grounds and 0.01 uF cap
In this section, you’ll add ground wires in the indicated places, using the black, solid 22
AWG wire supplied with the kit. The picture in Figure 4 has the following color code:
Hot pink – bare 22 AWG wire (just strip a bit of the supplied black 22 AWG and
use in the inner conductor).
Black – use black 22 AWG stripped in the normal way.
Please refer to the next two Figures as you build and change out the jack fields. They
show the new and original jack field ground wiring. It may help to print a copy of this
page for reference while you look at the instructions that follow.
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A 9 mm metric driver works fine also.
