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Reverb RCA Cable GROUND WIRES

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I picked up some of these for a Princeton I recently built. The older cables I originally made were vintage externally shielded types. These look a bit more civilized, and have a built-in ground wire (not a shield, I don't believe) for connecting chassis' together. Is it worth the trouble to ground the reverb tank enclosure to the amp chassis? This Princeton is the first I've built with reverb, so I appreciate your advice. Cheers.

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ViperDoc wrote:
Sat 10/10/20 12:26 am
I picked up some of these for a Princeton I recently built. The older cables I originally made were vintage externally shielded types. These look a bit more civilized, and have a built-in ground wire (not a shield, I don't believe) for connecting chassis' together. Is it worth the trouble to ground the reverb tank enclosure to the amp chassis? This Princeton is the first I've built with reverb, so I appreciate your advice. Cheers.

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Those are standard RCA wires used for reverb tanks. You don't connect any grounds, and certainly not the chassis to the tank. The extra "wire" hanging off in the picture, is the rubber between the wires in case you need to separate the plugs from each other more to fit the tank.
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Re: Reverb RCA Cable GROUND WIRES

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JMPGuitars wrote:
Sat 10/10/20 6:51 am
ViperDoc wrote:
Sat 10/10/20 12:26 am
I picked up some of these for a Princeton I recently built. The older cables I originally made were vintage externally shielded types. These look a bit more civilized, and have a built-in ground wire (not a shield, I don't believe) for connecting chassis' together. Is it worth the trouble to ground the reverb tank enclosure to the amp chassis? This Princeton is the first I've built with reverb, so I appreciate your advice. Cheers.

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Those are standard RCA wires used for reverb tanks. You don't connect any grounds, and certainly not the chassis to the tank. The extra "wire" hanging off in the picture, is the rubber between the wires in case you need to separate the plugs from each other more to fit the tank.
On the cables I bought there is indeed a strippable wire in between. It might be for daisy-grounding turn-table and hi-fi chassis. I stripped mine and bolted it to the tank. I'll just tape the other end off or disconnect it altogether.
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Re: Reverb RCA Cable GROUND WIRES

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ViperDoc wrote:
Sat 10/10/20 11:04 am
On the cables I bought there is indeed a strippable wire in between. It might be for daisy-grounding turn-table and hi-fi chassis. I stripped mine and bolted it to the tank. I'll just tape the other end off or disconnect it altogether.
lol, I forgot about those. Yeah, I think turntables sometimes do have a ground wire. Now I need to check if the ones I've been tearing have a wire or not. Didn't feel like it, but now I dunno.
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