And as you would expect, they are not working anymore 
I merrily disassembled them, and all the little wires are still connected where they should be, nothing is tangled or shorting or anything. But... they still are not working!
The other components are relatively solid-state (the part that jacks into the soundcard for instance) and nothing I can take apart, unless I really wanted to 
The soundcard is working, I plugged in a pair of speakers and they work okie.
What can I do to fix these? I dun want to have to buy a brand new pair of altec lansing headphones
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Everyone wondered WTF when Delidgamond wrote:
Choke wire
That's right. Strangle someone with headphones that work.
sigpic courtesy of This Guy, original modified by me
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So quoth Naimah:
If all connections appear to be correct then you're going to need a multimeter to figure out what is grounding/shorting out. Once that has been figured you have to locate the problem precisely and diagnose a possible solution from there. Not really much you can do from a forum to help with the problem.
I am an electrician.
True though. I do need more info before I might be able to help.
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This one time, at Vernaltemptress camp:
o rly, Parce and Blackened? In what alternate reality are you two living?
I'd dazzle you with some electrician language, but I think you might just die from the sheer complexity.
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Mr. Parcelan was listening to Cher while typing:
I'd dazzle you with some electrician language, but I think you might just die from the sheer complexity.
V = IR, bitch.
quote:Sorry, only true scholars in the world of electricity can utter a word in this thread, you'll have to leave.
Vernaltemptress.
o rly, Parce and Blackened? In what alternate reality are you two living?
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Blackened had this to say about Robocop:
Sorry, "only true scholars in the world of electricity can utter a word in this thread", you'll have to leave.
I think that means you'll have to leave, also. 
If all that measures right, then they should be working perfectly, and something is REALLY screwed up.
Assuming that that does not measure out right, open the cups on the earcups, and check the resistance from one side of the driver to the other (touch one probe of the multimeter to each wire that connects inside the cup). It should measure somewhere in the 8-300 range. If it does, then there's a problem somewhere in the cord, and the two most likely places are where the cord terminates (the plug) or where the cord splits in two. Next step would be to cut off the plug end and solder on a new plug. That would most likely fix it. If the driver does not measure near that range, it's probably dead, and you'll have to buy new headphones.
No, Really. Bite me.
Therefore, I shall continue investigating purely mechanical means of failure for my headphones 
The jack thing is connected to the... wire thing~ And the wire thing is connected to the... speaker thing~ And th-*FZZZT*
If it's too late for either of those, then it's really not a loss to buy a new set.
) I have sinceforth discovered that I had indeedy yanked the wires loose.Except when I pulled it open, the broken part fell out, and I dunno which side goes right and left now, argh!
Time for a soldering gun, painful burns, and some ol fashioned trial and error
quote:My Ph. D. is in Electricity!
Vernaltemptress.
I think that means you'll have to leave, also.
Count on a woman to miss all the important details.
(edit) Lemme clarify that a bit.
Left speaker pair has a green and gold wire, and one gold wire.
Right speaker pair has a red and gold wire, and one gold wire.
I have a hankering which one is the ground, I just want to be sure. Led fucked around with this message on 11-30-2005 at 12:44 AM.
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Led painfully thought these words up:
Hrm. How can I tell which wire in each pair goes to the ground? Both look pretty similar and work while reversed. One wire out of each pair has what looks like a fuzzy second wire woven into it, while the other in the pair is just plain gold wire. Which is which?(edit) Lemme clarify that a bit.
Left speaker pair has a green and gold wire, and one gold wire.
Right speaker pair has a red and gold wire, and one gold wire.I have a hankering which one is the ground, I just want to be sure.
Odds are that the gold wire on each side is ground, and just run with that assumption. Even if you get it wrong, nothing bad happens, you'll just end up with out-of-phase headphones, which sound almost exactly the same as in-phase ones.
No bad things happen as long as one wire from each side goes to ground, and the other wire goes to tip/ring.
No, Really. Bite me.
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Check out the big brain on Blackened!
My Ph. D. is in Electricity!Count on a woman to miss all the important details.
Women are so dumb.
However, while testing it (the right side wire and both grounds are hooked in so I decided to give it a go), both channels come out of the right speaker now So I must have it backwards... going to have to switch them tomorrow.
Rah!
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Mr. Parcelan had this to say about Cuba:
Women are so dumb.
*Stabs Parce in the eye with hot soldering iron*
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Led's fortune cookie read:
*Stabs Parce in the eye with hot soldering iron*
Who let you out of the kitchen?
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Burger was listening to Cher while typing:
Odds are that the gold wire on each side is ground, and just run with that assumption. Even if you get it wrong, nothing bad happens, you'll just end up with out-of-phase headphones, which sound almost exactly the same as in-phase ones.
If you do it the same on both sides, your headphones will always be in phase with each other.
I managed to finally get my hands on some nifty rosin core solder today, and managed to get my headphones fixed after much hubub
Tip: Do not get the lil 'Cold Heat' soldering iron thingy. The tips break waaaaaaay too easily Guess I owe my brother a new one New tips probably cost more than the entire stupid thing *argh*
I know I can't wait!
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Led had this to say about Knight Rider:
Ledupdate!I managed to finally get my hands on some nifty rosin core solder today, and managed to get my headphones fixed after much hubub
Tip: Do not get the lil 'Cold Heat' soldering iron thingy. The tips break waaaaaaay too easily
Guess I owe my brother a new one
New tips probably cost more than the entire stupid thing *argh*
I got one of those, and the fool thing didn't work at all. Took it back and got a real iron instead.
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Led had this to say about Pirotess:
Ledupdate!I managed to finally get my hands on some nifty rosin core solder today, and managed to get my headphones fixed after much hubub
Tip: Do not get the lil 'Cold Heat' soldering iron thingy. The tips break waaaaaaay too easily
Do yourself a favour and don't use those for anything electronics. They're the worst possible thing, a good old regular soldering iron works best.
