Peavey Yellow & Blue Speaker Wire Color
Peavey Yellow & Blue Speaker Wire Color
I'm just curious. Why did Peavey choose yellow for positive, blue negative for their speaker wires? Why didn't they use the industry standard of RED & BLACK? There must have been a good reason.
Re: Peavey Yellow & Blue Speaker Wire Color
Who knows? In two way speakers, the yellow/blue pair is the woofer, and they do use black and red for the horn.
In general, red and black in wiring is more commonly power wires, like on a 9v battery clip. For speakers, I see more black and white - like most fender amps. On tube amp output transformers, black is often common, but red would be unusual there.
In general, red and black in wiring is more commonly power wires, like on a 9v battery clip. For speakers, I see more black and white - like most fender amps. On tube amp output transformers, black is often common, but red would be unusual there.
Re: Peavey Yellow & Blue Speaker Wire Color
Yellow= sunny, positive. Blue= Blues, negative. It's a music thing.
As a group, us guitar players may not be that smart, but we can remember the difference between a sunny day and the blues.
Dalrymple
As a group, us guitar players may not be that smart, but we can remember the difference between a sunny day and the blues.
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Re: Peavey Yellow & Blue Speaker Wire Color
dalrymple, that was just beautifuldalrymple wrote:Yellow= sunny, positive. Blue= Blues, negative. It's a music thing.
As a group, us guitar players may not be that smart, but we can remember the difference between a sunny day and the blues.
Dalrymple
Honestly, that has never entered mind. I just assumed, the Sun was hot
aoresteen, the old SC 212s and CC 212s did have one speaker Blk and Red, and the other Blk and Ylw, FWIW.
Next question, why is black hot in AC, but negative in DC
Re: Peavey Yellow & Blue Speaker Wire Color
Why are the notes of the scale A-G instead of Greek letters?
Electrical wiring and electronics are two different worlds.
Electrical wiring and electronics are two different worlds.
Re: Peavey Yellow & Blue Speaker Wire Color
In ac wiring the hot wire can be black, red or blue in 110 volt schemes. In 277 volt schemes it can be brown, orange or yellow.
Just FWIW.
Just FWIW.
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