Wiring a wall box

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Hi,

Could someone please tell me how to correctly wire a wall box. I have a 24 way box (16 Female XLR, 8 TRS Jack) running to 16 XLR and 8 TRS Jack inputs on my mixer.

As I understand it, the XLRs should be wired 1 - screen 2 - cold 3 - hot but should the screen also be connected to the sleeve of the XLR connector (and the "push" switch on the female XLR)? The TRS jacks only have tip, ring and sleeve, while the XLRs have 1 (sleeve), 2 (tip), 3 (ring) and the actual sleeve.

I'd be grateful if someone could clear this up for me,

Thanks!
 
:cool: No. 2 should be hot on XLR connectors,3 should be - on XLR......

Tip is hot, ring is - , sleeve is ground.

Is "screen" ground in UK. ??
No. 1 is ground on XLR......



da MUTT
 
Thanks for the reply...Sorry, I knew 1 = screen, 2 = Hot, 3 = Cold, just messed up in my message!

Yeah ground = screen. Referred to as both here
 
Not really but I think I've figured it out now...my question was should the ground be connected to the actual metal sleeve of the XLR connector as well as pin 1....I'm pretty sure now the answer is yes, but please correct me if I'm wrong!

Thanks
 
:cool: On XLR the sleeve is part of the connector, so it's grounded when wired correctly, also the male/female connector that you handel is the ground. This is the same for tip/ring sleeve, configurations, the barrel is the ground when wired correctly.



da MUTT
 
I float the connection to the housing on XLRs and don't connect it to anything.
 
The actual steeve of the connector dosnt have to be grounded with the shield.
 
All depends on your board!

Many UK boards are wired with pins 2 and 3 reversed from United States standards. I know, I had to rewire our Allen & Heath board.
 
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