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ShLampen
 
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Default SPEAKER CONNECTION ADVICE

Hey, here's a wire guy in need of some advice!! My home is wired with 10AWG
cable (made as a special by Belden for a customer). It works great but, in my
surround speakers, they use those chintzy push-and-insert connections and the
10 AWG wire (which is terminated in really nice crimped spade lugs) is so huge
and heavy it keeps pulling itself out of the speaker (only one side of the lug
fits in the hole).

QUESTION: Does anyone make an adaptor which is goes from a hefty single pin
that this speaker would actually hold onto and go to a screw terminal, so I
could screw down the lug and insert the pin in as far as the speaker would
allow. Anybody seen one? If not, this is your million-dollar idea for the
week, and I'm your first customer.

Steve Lampen
Belden Electronics Division