I am wiring up the picade and have a couple of issues I the speaker wires. It say to but pressure on the clips and push the wire in. However no matter how hard I push I cannot get the wires in. I have watched the video and it’s unclear what you need to do. Also having issues with the power button …

Is the end of the speaker wire stripped and tined with solder? They use those same connectors on the pHat Beat. I just push down gently on the end of the tabs where the little notch is. When you get it right the end of the wire should just slide in. Your supposed to be able to insert the tinned en…

I have fitted them on the pirate radio kit. These wint go in . The instruction say press down but nothing seems to happen. Ends are looking a bit bent as I have tried to put them in loads of times

They have tin ends [15889680719673984835101948436149]

I don’t know what to tell you then? I don’t own a Picade.

i broke [changing the speakers to often ]the clips on mine on the pHat beat ,had to solder speaker wires to the contact

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they are delicate, hotGlue them or as i did solder the wires with my phat beat

do I just need to glue them in place. I have never used hot glue. its quite frustrating. I am sure when I wired a phat beats they just pushed in. May have to mark this project as a fail :(

its been a long time since i used the clips ,you just push in the wire and push down on the clip ,that how i remember it anyway ,not sure why mine broke ,maybe i was using a wire diameter to big for the plug, i soldered thes but have use a hot glue gun from a dollar store,for simuler fixes ,only …

Hi do I just but glue on the wire and push them in as far as possible?

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