Make an extension for headphones

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If the cable from your headphones is too short, you can also make an extension for it in the desired length yourself. You only need the necessary plug connections and a suitable cable.

Extend the headphone cable yourself
Extend the headphone cable yourself

What you need:

  • Soldering iron and solder
  • Knife and side cutter
  • Headphone plug and coupling

Create an extension for cables

Unfortunately, they are often permanently attached cable on the headphones too short, so that an extension could help here.

  • If you have the right plug connections (headphone plug and headphone coupling), you can make such an extension yourself.
  • Furthermore, you will of course need a soldering iron with tin solder for your project in order to be able to solder the connections.

How to make an extension cord for the headphones

  1. First take the new headphone cable, which you have shortened to the desired length, and push its ends through the sleeve of the headphone plug or the headphone jack. the headphone jack. You should definitely do this at the beginning, otherwise you will no longer be able to push the cables through the sleeves.
  2. Now you need to strip the ends of the extension cord. To do this, carefully cut into the outer insulation over a length of about 15 millimeters with a knife so that you can expose the shielding underneath.
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  3. Now twist the shield so that you can solder it later.
  4. Now you can also strip the two inner conductors of the cable to a length of about five millimeters and twist them as well.
  5. Now you can heat the soldering iron and then tin the stripped ends of the extension cable.
  6. Do the same for the connections on the plug or the connector. the clutch.
  7. Now solder the cables to the connector or the coupling so that the red inner conductor is connected to a center pole. Connect the other inner conductor to the second positive pole on the plug or the clutch.
  8. Finally, solder the shield to the negative pole of the plug connections. You can then screw the connectors together.

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