in my wall wires it seems? In detail: I have a house that is "pre-wired" for surround sound.
There are a total of 7 switch plates- two of these switch plates (in the back of the room) have nothing behind them, so I am assuming these are only there if I wanted to run extra wires someday to make it 7.1 (these are irrelevant).
For the others that matter- there are 4 switch plates (2 in front of room, 2 in back) with a grey wire inside- this grey wire I stripped and found 2 smaller wires inside colored RED and BLACK.
There is 1 remaining switch plate in front of room where it all comes together- this switch plate contains two large green wires and 1 coax black wire- I stripped the green wires and found 4 smaller wires inside of each colored RED BLACK GREEN and WHITE.
This is not rocket science- obviously (inside the green wires) red and black correspond to speaker #1- red and black to #2, green and white to #3, and green and white to #4, coax to sub (which I'm not using because my speakers have built in subs).
Here is my problem- I know I need to figure out which wires go to which speaker. So I am using a multimeter with continuity check to make a circuit and test. Again- not rocket science- but no matter what, if I connect red test lead to red wire under switch plate for a speaker, then connect black test lead to either red wire (inside the green cables) I get no beep for continuity. I even touched the black test lead to all 8 wires inside the green cables, still no sound, indicating no continuity. I have tried all 4 speakers, every possible combination, I cannot receive continuity- I AM BAFFLED. Is it possible there is break somewhere, causing the whole system to not connect? This is too frustrating to deal with such a simple problem. Makes absolutely no sense why this will not connect. Please help!! Thank you.
There are a total of 7 switch plates- two of these switch plates (in the back of the room) have nothing behind them, so I am assuming these are only there if I wanted to run extra wires someday to make it 7.1 (these are irrelevant).
For the others that matter- there are 4 switch plates (2 in front of room, 2 in back) with a grey wire inside- this grey wire I stripped and found 2 smaller wires inside colored RED and BLACK.
There is 1 remaining switch plate in front of room where it all comes together- this switch plate contains two large green wires and 1 coax black wire- I stripped the green wires and found 4 smaller wires inside of each colored RED BLACK GREEN and WHITE.
This is not rocket science- obviously (inside the green wires) red and black correspond to speaker #1- red and black to #2, green and white to #3, and green and white to #4, coax to sub (which I'm not using because my speakers have built in subs).
Here is my problem- I know I need to figure out which wires go to which speaker. So I am using a multimeter with continuity check to make a circuit and test. Again- not rocket science- but no matter what, if I connect red test lead to red wire under switch plate for a speaker, then connect black test lead to either red wire (inside the green cables) I get no beep for continuity. I even touched the black test lead to all 8 wires inside the green cables, still no sound, indicating no continuity. I have tried all 4 speakers, every possible combination, I cannot receive continuity- I AM BAFFLED. Is it possible there is break somewhere, causing the whole system to not connect? This is too frustrating to deal with such a simple problem. Makes absolutely no sense why this will not connect. Please help!! Thank you.