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newbie needs help with banana terminations

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Mike FL

I bought some Onix copper bananas to terminate some 12Ga. stranded speaker cable that I have. These bananas have set screws and a compression sleeve. Should I insert the wire inside the compression sleeve and then use the set screws to hold the wire and sleeve inside the banana or should I just forget about the compression sleeve altogether ?
essentially what I am asking is what is the purpose of the sleeve ? Thanks.

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RE: newbie needs help with banana terminations - rick_m 08:21:53 02/12/10 (0)
I'd go with the wire in the sleeve and screws hitting the sleeve. Probably the sleeve keeps the screws from cutting through the strands of the wire.

Rick

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