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  • Soundbar Power

    A Dell soundbar under the landscape monitor suffices for my simple audio needs, and, when the Dell U2711 went toes-up, I conjured a 12 V wart from the heap. A recent cleanup made a smaller wart available, but required mating two coaxial plugs:

    Coax power plugs - brass tube connector
    Coax power plugs – brass tube connector

    A snippet of brass tube suffices for the center pin. The outer shell is a larger brass tube, slit lengthwise, trimmed to fit the plug circumference and rolled around a smaller drill bit to make it springy in the right direction.

    A wrap of silicone tape and it’s all good:

    Dell Sound Bar power splice
    Dell Sound Bar power splice

    Ugly, but good.