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Re: BeoLab 5000 Panel speaker

Evan — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:31:46 GMT

Well all everything is running smoothly, I am very appreciative. Thank you to all who helped gettin my labs going!

Re: BeoLab 5000 Panel speaker

joeyboygolf — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:14:59 GMT

Soldered.

Re: BeoLab 5000 Panel speaker

Evan — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:03:48 GMT

Yea I'm going to do it myself, and I will be repalcaing the entire thing for many obvious reasons.

I'm not anywhere near them right now so I cant look, are the cord connections just tie ins with screws or soldered?

Re: BeoLab 5000 Panel speaker

joeyboygolf — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:16:05 GMT

Get the power chords replaced.

If you can't do it yourself then leave it to your local electronic repair shop.

I have replaced several myself, it's not rocket science and should not cost much.

Re: BeoLab 5000 Panel speaker

Puncher — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:54:42 GMT

tournedos:

evman140:

So all I will ultimately be doing is adding a wall plug?

Yes, I guess Bieele is right and they have been just cut off. Did you get the speakers as a working pair? Over here cutting the power cords is a common (and annoying) practice of marking electrical items in unknown condition...

You can just splice a new cord with a plug into the old remains, but I personally don't like that solution. Somebody some day might accidentally yank the connection loose, and then you have live wires dangling about.

...........Not to mention a fire risk - don't do it. Replace the cable properly.

Re: BeoLab 5000 Panel speaker

Peter — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:52:10 GMT

As standard they come with a two pin plug so the polarity is not a problem - having said that, they usually have a blue and beown wire so I would attach the brown to live and blue to neutral anyway!

Re: BeoLab 5000 Panel speaker

Evan — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:31:17 GMT

So I guess my next question is, if the polarity a major player in the plug? It may sound stupid, I'm just trying to get things right. Does it use same size prongs or unequal?

Re: BeoLab 5000 Panel speaker

Daniel — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:40:06 GMT

I get it!

They have done exactly what I have done on my wall mounted BL2000 and BL3500. No visible cables!

I have placed the cables for mains and ML in the wall. To be able to connect the mains I needed to cut the mains cable. No problem if you know what you´re doing.

But of course I've saved the cut parts so I can reconnect them if needed. If (heaven forbid) heel freeze over and I sell them I would get a new cable for them.

/Sherlock

Re: BeoLab 5000 Panel speaker

tournedos — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:33:59 GMT

evman140:

So all I will ultimately be doing is adding a wall plug?

Yes, I guess Bieele is right and they have been just cut off. Did you get the speakers as a working pair? Over here cutting the power cords is a common (and annoying) practice of marking electrical items in unknown condition...

You can just splice a new cord with a plug into the old remains, but I personally don't like that solution. Somebody some day might accidentally yank the connection loose, and then you have live wires dangling about.

Re: BeoLab 5000 Panel speaker

beologisch — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:24:32 GMT

evman140:

So all I will ultimately be doing is adding a wall plug?

No offense taken mika.

Im still going to get that picture everyone.

or connect a long power cord to the wire ends [the cut-cable ends that is] at the back of the BL5000 and stick other end in an existing power wall plug, but.............................be carefull to connect everything correctly otherwise the amp will blow a fuse [at least] and you will do the same after that a presume. I've done this several times at the back of my BL4500's and it''s not difficult and there is enought room at the back in front of the switches for the power connectors, but just make certain the connections are correct.

Re: BeoLab 5000 Panel speaker

Evan — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:42:25 GMT

So all I will ultimately be doing is adding a wall plug?

No offense taken mika.

Im still going to get that picture everyone.

Re: BeoLab 5000 Panel speaker

tournedos — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:29:59 GMT

evman140:

Oh no worries graham. My problem however lies in the amplification, there are wires that have been cut, it looks like a lamp cord. I'm assuming this is the problem?

I'm not trying to insult your skills - but from the sound of this, for heaven's sake PLEASE get us a picture of what you're about to do before connecting mains power anywhere!

Re: BeoLab 5000 Panel speaker

Bieele — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:47:08 GMT

evman140:

Oh no worries graham. My problem however lies in the amplification, there are wires that have been cut, it looks like a lamp cord. I'm assuming this is the problem?

Sounds like your power amp wires have been cut. Maybe this is done because the speakers were used in a setup where the cables where hidden and cutting the wires was the easiest way to remove the speakers.

Can of course be fixed. Proper way would be to connect new wires to the amp. Alternatively you could try to use connectors to ad a new power wires to the existing ones. Should not be to big a deal to fix.

Good luck.

Bieele

Re: BeoLab 5000 Panel speaker

Evan — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:36:16 GMT

Oh no worries graham. My problem however lies in the amplification, there are wires that have been cut, it looks like a lamp cord. I'm assuming this is the problem?

Re: BeoLab 5000 Panel speaker

joeyboygolf — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:57:17 GMT

My apologies