PA system question - testing speakers

If you only have wires going to speakers and need to see which one goes where, you can use a small battery (like a 9-volt battery) to test and trace them. The battery also helps determine the polarity (which wire is ground) and etc.

A search on google "testing speakers with battery" returned a few results like:

Test a speaker with a 9 volt battery - Sound Speaker Repair

Testing a speaker with a 9 volt battery - YouTube



hope this helps

I don't think your network tools will help on this.  If it's individual speakers like in a stereo system, just use a CD player with headphone output.  You will need an adapter to get only one channel.  If it is a 70-Volt distributed system, that idea will still work except that you will need more voltage to drive them.  In any case you start out at low or no volume and bring it up.  You won't hurt the speakers that way.

Thanks for the suggestions
I planned on trying the 9-volt thing, but speakers are up to 300feet away from the server room and 55 feet in the air.
I grabbed a few wires and will try the headphone test, but first i plan on hooking up my old boom-box - external speaker attachment- and try this on low volume.  Better to kill an old unused boombox than a $$$ laptop.
I will update when possible.

Boombox external speaker is a good choice.  Since they are that far away, you may have to turn it up a little to hear them.

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