Replacing 3.5mm jack

[tikker]

Recently my Logitec Z523 has been acting up where the right speaker loses sound. Sound comes back when I wobble the cable around or put some stress on the wire near the jack in a certain direction so I thought it probably was a wiring issue somewhere near that.

I cut off the old jack and put on a new connector like this one. The wiring inside the speaker cable is a red wire, white wire and bare copper around it, which I assumed to be ground. I soldered them like this:

white -> left (short) leg

red -> right (long) leg

bare -> bottom leg with strain relieve

 

The problem that I have now is that only my right speaker works and the left one not. Did I mess up soldering? Is it time for a new speaker set?

[Ronda]

I don't see how resoldering a connector could have killed a speaker, so it sounds like you either didn't solder the right channel wire to its leg well enough or shorted the right channel to the ground.

You can see in this vid  (at around 2:45) the guy showing which connectors should have connection with which wires.

If you have a multimeter, you can test if the connection's there like he does in the video.

[tikker]

9 minutes ago, Ronda said:

I don't see how resoldering a connector could have killed a speaker, so it sounds like you either didn't solder the right channel wire to its leg well enough or shorted the right channel to the ground.

You can see in this vid  (at around 2:45) the guy showing which connectors should have connection with which wires.

If you have a multimeter, you can test if the connection's there like he does in the video.

I watched that video after it didn't work the first time (I had the red and white wires switched). Either attempt only gives me sound through the right speaker. Maybe I'm shorting something out. I guess I'll resolder it again. Unfortunately I don't have a multimeter yet.

[tikker]

@Ronda

Turns out it was indeed a short or a bad solder joint or it was a bit finnicky about exactly where it was solderd. After a few more tries it worked. I guess I need to up my repair skills a bit