/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Oh god... This solves half of my problems.
Thank you, kind sir.

>>24929
you're welcome

Easier fix get dubs

>check em

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>>24892
..no, that's wrong. You're reversing the connections that way, inverting the signal.

holy crap...why didn't i think of this before. you are a genius OP!

>>24892
Holy shit this is genius.

trollolololololol?

>>24962
<3 the mods of this board

>>24892
that is amazing

Also, if you don't have any 1/8" male to RCA male adapters, you can just stick the 1/8" into the RCA female plug.

>>24962
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Thank you

>>24963
well the sound comes out the same, i had my stereo set up like this for a year until i got the right cable.

>>24994
*shrug* do whatever you like, not my stuff or my problem.

>>25017
That's the spirit!

>>25017
I don't really get it, how does a male to male connector manages to not invert the signal? I can't quite get it.

>>24962
Easily becoming the best board now.

Also, it was not in God's intention to pair up two male RCA connectors. It's unnatural and wrong.

>>25055
fuck if i know, all i know is it worked lol

What about to female connectors?

>>25055
better question is how would it

>>24892

it's not gay if balls are not touching

>>25091
Whatever the question, someone explain this wizardry.

>>25086
Use scissors

>>25055

I don't think an inverted signal wouldn't matter much in audio, unless different speakers are inverted relative to each other, causing interference problems.

>>24963
>Metal to metal connection
It's al good :)
>Different metal to metal connection
NO THE SIGNAL IS INVERTED BECAUSE IT'S SHAPED DIFFERENTLY

Protip - there's no inverting amp, therefore the signal is the same. His only possible worry is very slightly diminished quality due to small connection area.

>>25086
give me a few mins...

>>25129
SO IT HAS BEEN SAID.
Tomorrow I will be buying some zipties

>>25055
Instead of using a male to male adapter, you can just touch the two ends together. It's not perfect but it'll work.

Holy shit this is relevant to the problem I have now.

I have lots of male/male RCA cables but no females. I want to connect my PS3 to my monitor, but I'm left with no audio. I have my mixer next to my studio monitors so I can easily connect the PS3 to that if I had a female connector. I needed a temporarily solution and this looks like it'll work, just wasn't sure.

GG.

>>25148

It actually wasn't, just a whole lot of questions.

Also I just ordered like 1000 zip ties from some chinese shopping site, nothing is safe now.

>>24962
This is what I like to see but as for your genius discovery it seems very crafty but I have yet to decide if it works properly.

op's pic is the most gayest thing i've ever seen

>>25168
motherofgod.jpg

>>25115

>Use scissors

DOHOHOHO

But seriously, maybe paperclip wire could work.

>>25181
true. I tested it before.

You're connecting the negative of one terminal to the positive of the other, and v/versa. So when a positive voltage comes down the line, it comes out of the positive on one plug and into the other, causing the speaker cone to move in the opposite direction as intended.

OP probably listens to limewire-quality rips of Boten Anna to not care about this asshattery.

It's only >>25178
gay if the balls touch.

>>25115
You're connecting the negative of one terminal to the positive of the other, and v/versa. So when a positive voltage comes down the line, it comes out of the positive on one plug and into the negative of the other, causing the speaker cone to move in the opposite direction as intended.

OP probably listens to limewire-quality rips of Boten Anna to not care about this asshattery.

>>25210
lol dc current means no difference.

>>25086
OP here
WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW!!!

>>25210

Also you know there are two wires in an rca cable? The outer cylinder is the ground. This isn't safe, I wouldn't plug this into my tv. This is like those make crystals at home threads on /b/.

>>25220
Cable orgy?
Not sure if I want to stay in this thread.

>>25220

>>25219
No, you retard. What happens when you put the batteries in your gameboy backwards?

Answer, it doesn't work and you have to go talk to girls.

ugh enjoy your parasitic capacitance/inductance and reflections from Z0 mismatch

>This thread

Anyone who finds this thread useful is clearly a 17 year old boy who is fascinated that they now have a new way to hook up their xbox

it was for a nigger rigged stereo made from a gaming chair and some old speakers i had, the chair audio box had a headphone output and the speakers each had a male RCA jack but i only had a headphone to male RCA cable so i came up with this to fix it and it worked until i got my new stereo.

>>25270
lol well that's what i used it for until i got my actual stereo that has an AUX input now i just plug everything into my TV and run a cable from the TV audio out to my stereo.

>>25220
We have some mad geniuses among us.

>>25297
lol next ill post my laptop cooler made from an xbox 360 fan cluster a gaming chair control board and a TV tray. just give me a few mins to take a few pics and resize them.

>>25220

Is it still cheating if you used solder but didn't actually solder the two connectors together?

>>25297
>thinks zip tieing connectors qualifies as mad geniuses

oh boy you are gonna love this forum

i gotta get some YBCO and i'll have a superconducting tesla coil ready to go soon

>>25309

Jesus christ I'm being trolled.

>>25309
here it is
i cut the hole with my leatherman
1/3

>>25350
i don't think so.

this board is just that crazy

>>25360
2/3
the fans are held on with super glue and metal tape to create a better seal.

>>25363

Threads like this turn engineers into serial killers.

>>25373
fucking jesus

>>25373
3/3
here is the board from the chair i wired the fans to some of the wires that went to the massage motors also i can control the fan speed with one of those sliders.
i just taped them together with a piece of cardboard to insulate the board from the metal legs to the lunch tray.

>>25052
Queer.

>>25052
go to bed r-ant

>that feel when you wish you could be male-to-male coupler but you're not gay

God you are all retarded.
It is inverting because the ground on each connector is touching the signal on the other connector.
OP that generally is ok for audio, but yes you are inverting the signal. (if you used your method on one speaker, and not the other, and you were playing the same sound on both channels, they would cancel each other out and it would be really quiet.)

>>25392
I hate you

>>25373
kill yourself

>>25443
why?

>>25445
why gnu mad tho?
It's /diy/, ghetto rig central.

>>25392

>>25460
You are upset over nothing. Why shouldn't he do what he wants with his stuff? You should probably leave, you will see more of this in the future.

>>25460
well i had a broken 360 and a broken chair and an over heating laptop and i was bored and this happened to kill an hour and solve a problem i was having so eat a dick.

>>25464
yes he will lol when i make more nig rigged shit i plan on sharing it.

>>25469
You could have spent an hour fixing the xbox instead. Then you'd have an xbox instead of pie tin with fans strapped on it (that your mom is probably going to accidentally take out with the garbage in a week or two).

The DIY world is being ruined the people who ruin $50 worth of hardware to get something they could have bought for $5 and is vastly inferior.

>>24892
So what you are saying is I can zip-tie the end of 2 ethernet cables together = free ethernet switch

>>25498
Try it, though people are saying it reverses the signal. Let's see how it looks like in the other end.

if the signar inverts he can put the speaker backwards, thats what they do in car audio competitions for showing the back of the speaker, they also alternate one speaker backwards, one forward.

pic related

well this thread proves that 99% of DIY knows fuck all about basic electronics.

>>25498
no, Ethernet cables are not that easily connectable
this one from OP isn't great either, it probably doesn't dissipate static well
also, it would not work if the cable was crossover

>>25520
you and me brah, we're the 1%

For all those people saying "ZOMG YOU'RE INVERTING THE SIGNAL", there is an easy solution.

ATTACH ANOTHER MALE-MALE CABLE WITH ANOTHER ZIP TIE. Invert twice, get the original setup back.

Granted that your audio quality might be shit with this setup, but if it works, it works.

>>25520
>>25524
Well, this is /diy/, not /ee/.

>>25486
the xbox was un-fixable the GPU was fried not just overheating so it was fucked and i sold the disc drive to my friend. so i wasted nothing and gained $10 and a laptop cooler.

>>25537

Oh hey, I can't ride a bike, I'll go run a triathalon

>>25537
diy is basically the electronics board anyway now that drug use is gone

>>25543
Oh really, did you test that GPU yourself?

>>25543
you fool

the solder joints were bad

you could have baked the whole thing to re-melt the solder and they would have reconnected the pads!!

>>25577
>>25570
im pretty sure it was fried because there was fucking smoke coming out of it, i dont know what the fuck happened but it smelled like burnt circuits.

I may be wrong by an RCA jack is not negative/positive "terminals". the electrical signal is sent only through the plug and the outer metal ring is simply a ground. i suppose the in OP's setup the cables become ungrounded and the signal is sent through both the plug and ground ring. this all my own personal hypothesis though. need intelligent EE major to thoroughly explain.

>>25597
you let the magic blue smoke out, the smoke is a critical component of any electrical device.

Will this work?

>>25597

And your sensitive nose was able to classify this as GPU smoke, and not PSU smoke?

>>25611
lol no they arent all touching

>>25605

Here's an explanation: In closed circuits, ground is the same as negative.

You ignorant slut.

>>25618
the power supply for a 360 is in that big ass brick that is on the power cord also when it happened i got the 3 lights for the RROD which is caused by the GPU fucking up.

>>25631

>>25649

I'm just going to stop now, and let you bask in the glory of how you threw away $200 of your parent's hard-earned money.

>>25220
I fucking love you

>>25680
wasnt my parents, i bought it used from gamestop and you can think what you want but in the end my laptop isnt overheating and i know that is because i made something myself out of stuff i had on hand.

>>25710

enjoy spending life with accessories made of duct tape.

>>25737
i will

>>25737

>stoplikingwhatidontlike.gif

>>25737
>spending life with accessories made of duct tape.
This is the fucking DIY board, what did you expect?

>>25159 here
So, it wasn't working at first because the outer metal shells were touching. I pulled them apart a bit so they aren't touching and now everything is great. No difference in sound quality either.

Great temporarily solution :D

>>24994
Not gonna bother to read the whole thread, so I'm not sure if I'm just repeating someone else.

If you invert the phase of a mono audio signal, it will sound mostly the same. Basically, you're taking the audio waveform and turning it upside, down. In layman's terms, every time the speaker should be sticking out it will suck in, and vice-versa. This can result in some distortion, but in general, you will not hear it. Just don't count on your speaker setup to be awesome, but if you're using RCA, especially RCA held together with a zip-tie, I assume you are not.

If you insist on doing things this way, just make sure you do it for both speakers. That way, they're both inverted and you won't get any weird cancellation or phasing issues at certain points where the sound waves meet in the room with opposite polarity.

>>25400
>>25396
Lol wut?

>>26669
A lot of subs have a phase change and can go 90 degrees and 270 degrees out of phase as well to help with timing.

>>25631
But it's not a closed circuit. It's unlikely, but you could be plugging this ziptie monstrosity into the one stereo in a million that explodes if the signal ground doesn't match up with earth ground.

Personally I'd rather take the time to connect the plugs the right way round, using a rubber band.

Best thread I've ever read on 4chan in like five years.