Hello,

We have recently moved into a new home, which we had pre-wired for a
surround sound system. We also had speakers on the lanai pre wired and
installed.

Well the home theater system is in and it sounds great. I am having
trouble with the lanai speakers. The speaker cable for the lanai had
four wires in it (red, black, white, and green). There are two
speakers on the lanai, so I figured that red and black were the +/- for
one speaker and white and green were the +/- for the other. So I put
the red wire in the red terminal and the black into the black terminal
for the right side of the Front B speakers, then I put the green wire
into the red terminal and the white wire into the black terminal for
the left side of Front B.

I am not getting any sound out of the lanai speakers when I switch to
Front B. There is no volume control on the wall, which is one
suggestion I received from a friend. The AV Receiver is a Yamaha,
HTR5830.

Am I missing anything obvious? Is there some trick to actually
activating the terminals for Front B on the receiver? I have been
through the manual and don't see anything? Anyone have any ideas, or
suggestions, or references? I cannot find a Yamaha website for this
product.

Thanks,
Kathryn

Kathryn,

Sorry I can't help you with your question. But I must thank you for
helping me. You have confirmed the fact that I am a poor person. I
didn't even know what a "lanai" was until I looked it up.
Where I come from, we can only afford a porch or veranda. : )

Jeff

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Hello,

We have recently moved into a new home, which we had pre-wired for a
surround sound system. We also had speakers on the lanai pre wired and
installed.

Well the home theater system is in and it sounds great. I am having
trouble with the lanai speakers. The speaker cable for the lanai had
four wires in it (red, black, white, and green). There are two
speakers on the lanai, so I figured that red and black were the +/- for
one speaker and white and green were the +/- for the other. So I put
the red wire in the red terminal and the black into the black terminal
for the right side of the Front B speakers, then I put the green wire
into the red terminal and the white wire into the black terminal for
the left side of Front B.

I am not getting any sound out of the lanai speakers when I switch to
Front B. There is no volume control on the wall, which is one
suggestion I received from a friend. The AV Receiver is a Yamaha,
HTR5830.

Am I missing anything obvious? Is there some trick to actually
activating the terminals for Front B on the receiver? I have been
through the manual and don't see anything? Anyone have any ideas, or
suggestions, or references? I cannot find a Yamaha website for this
product.

Thanks,
Kathryn

My guess is that you may not have guessed correctly which wires went
to which speaker. Try other combinations of wires by leaving the black
wire connected and trying the the white or the green with it.

wrote:
Hello,

We have recently moved into a new home, which we had pre-wired for a
surround sound system. We also had speakers on the lanai pre wired
and installed.

Well the home theater system is in and it sounds great. I am having
trouble with the lanai speakers. The speaker cable for the lanai had
four wires in it (red, black, white, and green). There are two
speakers on the lanai, so I figured that red and black were the +/-
for one speaker and white and green were the +/- for the other. So I
put the red wire in the red terminal and the black into the black
terminal for the right side of the Front B speakers, then I put the
green wire into the red terminal and the white wire into the black
terminal for the left side of Front B.

I am not getting any sound out of the lanai speakers when I switch to
Front B. There is no volume control on the wall, which is one
suggestion I received from a friend. The AV Receiver is a Yamaha,
HTR5830.

Am I missing anything obvious? Is there some trick to actually
activating the terminals for Front B on the receiver? I have been
through the manual and don't see anything? Anyone have any ideas, or
suggestions, or references? I cannot find a Yamaha website for this
product.

Thanks,
Kathryn

You can easily identify the correct pairs if you use a simple multimeter
with an 2k or 20k ohms range. The correspondent cable will give a low
reading, the wrong cables give an overrange (open circuit). Now you only
have to determine the correct polarity, which is easy as well.
Use a 1.5V AA battery and put the 2 poles on one of the identified pairs.
observe the bass speaker. If it moves outwards, in your direction, it is the
right polarity. Red comes to the same cable as the battery plus. If it moves
inwards, it is opposite. Do not worry these low dc voltages will not damage
your speakers.
--
ciao Ban
Bordighera, Italy