Replacing Headphone Jack

By tp95112
June 18, 2018 in Audio

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The sleeves is what acts as ground:

Posted June 18, 2018

I bought some 3.5mm jacks from eBay I plan on repairing a few old headsets. My only problem is I don't know which is ground, left and right channel. I'm going to assume the extended piece with a hole is ground but I'm not sure about the other two.

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The sleeves is what acts as ground:

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