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Step 6Wiring the microphone

wiring the microphone
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The microphone has 6 wires that need connecting: stereo audio signal (4), and 12V power (2).

The audio signal cables are yellow and black pairs, the power signal cable is red and black.

Cut and strip the microphone wires close to the connectors, like with the video camera. Remember, the design described here does not use the "12V out" signal. Don't use that wire pair.

+ 12 V Signal +
Find (+) and (-) on the second battery pack. You will connect (+) to the red power line and (-) to the black power line.
The microphone power lines go on the connxall wire end, the battery pack linesgo on the wall mount.

+ Audio Signal +
The red and white pairs of wire on the a/v cable should already be stripped. Pair the red cables with one of the yellow and black audio signals coming out of the microphone, and pair the white ones with the other yellow and black pair.
There's too many uses of the word pair here: the stereo signal is a pair of paired wires. Connect the wires so that each black cable from the microphone goes to an "unshielded" wire of the a/v cable, and each yellow cable goes to a shielded one. It is ok to put the yellows both on the unshielded and the blacks on shielded, but make it continuous one way or the other.

watch the short video on this, too.
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Will Bosworth, developing projects for HowToons @ SquidLabs.