How to? - momentary footswitch

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How to? - momentary footswitch

I have just gone and got a cheap footswitch to use with my UMX25. The footswitch didn’t come with a long cable nor a plug on the end. No biggy so i thought i would solder one on myself… Ok so here is my problem:

  1. I’m going to put a female 1/4" TRS connection on the end. (This way i am hoping to then use just normal 1/4" TRS Male-Male cable to go from female footswitch plug to the back of the UMX25)
  2. It has three contact/wire points to solder and so does the footswitch cable.
  3. The cables are coloured white, green and black.
  4. Is there a specific way these need to be soldered?:confused:
  5. There is a circuit diagram on the bottom of the footswitch but my electronics knowledge is limited.:confused: never listened in physics in high school lol:stuck_out_tongue:
  6. I opened the Male plug in the other cable and it only had 2 contact/wire points?:confused:

Should i post pictures of my parts?

Hope someone can help here cuz ive searched the net for ages but have come up trumps :disappointed:

cheers, andy

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Given that the current provided is strong enough to travel through the connectors, the cable, the switch and back again, here’s a schematic on what each part of an XLR connector stands for:

EDIT: My bad, I now see that it was a 1/4" TRS plug.

However the same logic applies on that. Send the current through on of the wires, if that doesn’t work, try the other.