Hi everyone, I recently had a few Speakon to Speakon PA cables fail on me, it was the same problem on all of them the copper in the cable had come away from the terminals, it looked like the outer strands of copper had snapped off and that had compromised the pressure fit of the terminal allowing the copper to slide out and break the circuit, anyway, I noticed that the copper was not tinned before being attached to the speakon plugs, should they be tinned? I would imagine that doing this would increase the strength of the outer strands which would stop this problem happening? if I were to tin them would I use normal 60/40 (like used for pickups etc in a guitar) or would I need something that could take more power (about 1000 to 1500 watts) thanks. I should add, I know not to solder the cable into the speakon plug, I am just talking about tinning the cable to be pressure fit into the speakon plug, cheers.
George
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If the cable is a bit thin, I prefer to strip double the length necessary and fold it back on itself so there's twice as much wire in the terminal, that seems to lock it more tightly.
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