banana plug with thin pin

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Bought 8 Banana plugs for my Denon dab37/ Tannoy F1 speakers.

Problem is the banana plugs fit ok on the speakers but the pins are too thick to fit in the connectors at the back of the Denon.

Anyone know where i can buy Banana plugs with a thin pin?

Looked on Amazon e.t.c and they are all thick pin type .

 

[simonlewis]

Have you taken out the bungs that are in the speaker connection of the denon, if not you will need to remove them for the banana plugs to fit.

 

[Dave_]

I assume the Denon has spring clip connectors rather than binding posts like the speakers?

If so you need Banana 'pins' like THIS for example, rather than banana 'plugs'.

 

[Anonymous]

I dident know there were any bungs in there!

Do they remove easily?

 

[Anonymous]

No Dave, they have binding posts like the speakers.

Those Banana pins are just what im looking for if i dont go down the plug removal road.

 

[simonlewis]

Prize them out with a cocktail stick, they will pop out easily.

 

[scene]

Tangerine dream:
No Dave, they have binding posts like the speakers.

Those Banana pins are just what im looking for if i dont go down the plug removal road.

The alternative is to go for spade connectors...

 

[Dave_]

Tangerine dream:
I dident know there were any bungs in there!

Do they remove easily?

Just use a small flat blade screwdriver to carefully prise out the bung from the centre of the binding posts.

 

[Anonymous]

Just tried to unscrew the red binding post screw and it becomes tight when fully screwed out.

I dare not unscrew it anymore in case it breaks.

I can see a silver insert, is this the plug or is it the black plastic thing!?

 

[simonlewis]

It's the black plastic thing in the middle.

 

[Dave_]

Dont unscrew the binding post- If you look in the centre of the binding post there is a little plastic bung, and it can be gently prised out.

 

[The_Lhc]

No, screw it all the way back in, now, in the middle of the "red bit" (and corresponding "black bit" on the other terminal) is there a plastic cap in the middle? That's the bit you take out and stick your banana plugs in. It should come out fairly easily, I usually use my fingernails.

 

[Anonymous]

Ah i see now, yes popped it out with a cocktail stick.

I take it i can plug in 4mm Banana plugs in here now?

 

[simonlewis]

YES!!!

 

[The_Lhc]

Tangerine dream:
Ah i see now, yes popped it out with a cocktail stick.

I take it i can plug in 4mm Banana plugs in here now?

It would have been pretty pointless advice to give you if you couldn't.

I'll be nice and not make the other comment I was thinking of making...

 

[Anonymous]

Many thanks, sorted now, dont need the Banana pins

You learn something new everyday.

Wonder why it doesent tell you this in the handbook?

 

[Anonymous]

Go ahead make the other comment, i probably deserve it lol.

Dident want to do something i shouldent have and end up blowing the Denon.

Better to ask the Bleeping Obvious and be on the safe side.

Ive done some dumb things in my time and now i ask before doing.

 

[Dave_]

Tangerine dream:Wonder why it doesent tell you this in the handbook? Down to EU regs.

 

[John Duncan]

Steady, long haired boy...

 

[The_Lhc]

Tangerine dream:
Go ahead make the other comment, i probably deserve it lol.

Dident want to do something i shouldent have and end up blowing the Denon.

Better to ask the Bleeping Obvious and be on the safe side.

Ive done some dumb things in my time and now i ask before doing.

Well that's fair enough I guess, I think most people would have just stuck the bananas in without asking, given the previous advice.

Electrically there's no difference between doing it that way and connecting with bare wire though, so you'd be safe enough.

The EU thing is because in countries that use 2-pin power connectors it *might* be possible to stick a power lead into the banana plug holes and that could be dangerous.

 

[Dave_]

the_lhc:The EU thing is because in countries that use 2-pin power connectors it *might* be possible to stick a power lead into the banana plug holes and that could be dangerous.I think its more, that banana plugs could be plugged into a euro mains socket, and Eurocrats assumption that people are that daft and need protecting from themselves.