jmathers
Super Member
Well, I just HAD to rewire my tonearm on a Project 1.2 and now that it's done, it hums. Any ideas for troubleshooting?
I used the shielded Cardas wire and stripped the shielding off the wire (except for the colored stuff) that went through the arm tube itself. I left it twisted together.
As it comes out of the base of the arm pillar itself I bypassed the din and left the shielding on the wire and ran it out to two female RCAs. I left the original ground wires attached to the din (there's two coming out of the arm - one from the tube and one that's connected in the top of the pillar somewhere) since I would reuse the din anyway as a plug for the arm pillar and ran the original ground wire out to a post in my new RCA box and then on to the preamp ground.
I did nothing with the Cardas metal shielding other than to cut it off at the stripped ends of the wire - does this need to be grounded somehow? Could that be the problem?
I redid ALL of my solder joints last night thinking that maybe I messed up on one but that had no effect. Help!
Jeff
I used the shielded Cardas wire and stripped the shielding off the wire (except for the colored stuff) that went through the arm tube itself. I left it twisted together.
As it comes out of the base of the arm pillar itself I bypassed the din and left the shielding on the wire and ran it out to two female RCAs. I left the original ground wires attached to the din (there's two coming out of the arm - one from the tube and one that's connected in the top of the pillar somewhere) since I would reuse the din anyway as a plug for the arm pillar and ran the original ground wire out to a post in my new RCA box and then on to the preamp ground.
I did nothing with the Cardas metal shielding other than to cut it off at the stripped ends of the wire - does this need to be grounded somehow? Could that be the problem?
I redid ALL of my solder joints last night thinking that maybe I messed up on one but that had no effect. Help!
Jeff