5-pin cable connectors; replace them?

[edwardofhuncote]

Good question. I will double-check that this evening, but my recollection (and my OCD tendencies back this up... I always return volumes and filters to zero, and the switch to standby) are that the ghost signal was there, however faint, while both volumes are all the way down.  I remember thinking; wait a minute - the switch is in standby, should be no output. Yet, there it was. It's not enough to be usable, but it is enough noise to not be mute. (which is kinda' what I use the switch for) Shouldn't be there at all...


It would make a dandy 20' jump-rope too... kind of a bright-side thing I'm doing today.   

[lbpesq]

It would make a dandy 20' jump-rope too... kind of a bright-side thing I'm doing today.   

Clothes line?  Go green!

hehehehe

Bill, tgo

[JimmyJ]

Oh, that's a weird one! 

Standby basically shorts the audio outputs to ground.  I believe turning down the master volume all the way does the same thing.  But what you're describing makes me think there may be some unintended resistance in some part of that cable. 

As I was saying about the original 8424, it had a tendency to corrode internally so that when trying to solder a new connector to that old wire it doesn't want to "take" the solder.  Our cables use the shield wires as ground for both audio and power and getting good contact to those wires is also tricky.

I'm not sure what to suggest if you find the situation unusable.  I guess you could use a meter to check for any slight resistance in the 5 conductors.  Or for any slight continuity between pins (there should be none!).  It shouldn't be causing any harm but it also should be "leaking" like that.  If it's only a spare cable maybe you can live with it.


Jimmy J

[edwardofhuncote]

Yessir - it would last for freakin' EVER as a clothesline!

Yeah, it's totally a spare... and totally functional as-is, I'd just have to use the tuner pedal out for muting. I'm thinking just forget about it... I have two more 20' lengths to gig with, and a 10' one I keep at home.