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Title: Help needed to ID connector on Sennheiser MKE-40-3 mics
Post by: hyperplane on July 06, 2006, 01:17:32 AM
All right, I just got in a pair of Sennheiser MKE-40 microphones. According to the markings on the box, these appear to be Sennheiser MKE-40-3 model microphones.

Below are pictures of the connector on the end. I *think* these are lemo 1-pin connectors... ???  But I could be (and probably am) wrong about this.

The first picture shows the "shell" of the connector. The second and third pictures show the connector with the "shell" removed... it has a single small pin, which looks a bit like the typical pin found in an RCA plug.

Can anyone help me ID these connectors and/or point me to the counterpart with which to mate these mic connectors, so I can make some adaptor cables to run them to a (2-wire) battery box?

Any assistance on this is GREATLY appreciated. Oh, and YES, I have contacted Sennheiser and am awaiting an answer from them.
Title: Re: Help needed to ID connector on Sennheiser MKE-40-3 mics
Post by: hyperplane on July 07, 2006, 04:27:57 PM
For anyone interested, I spoke with Sennheiser and this type of connector is an "ueberwolf" connector (cylinder with a single pin).

This ueberwolf connector requires a (discontinued) K3 power adaptor, or a modification/change of connectors on the microphones. I chose the latter.  >:D
Title: Re: Help needed to ID connector on Sennheiser MKE-40-3 mics
Post by: poorlyconditioned on July 07, 2006, 09:28:50 PM
Quote from: hyperplane on July 07, 2006, 04:27:57 PM
For anyone interested, I spoke with Sennheiser and this type of connector is an "ueberwolf" connector (cylinder with a single pin).

This ueberwolf connector requires a (discontinued) K3 power adaptor, or a modification/change of connectors on the microphones. I chose the latter.  >:D

Cool.  Keep the connectors.  They may be worth something to someone with old K3 mics.  These are the generation of small diaphragm condensers before the current K6.

So, there should be two wires in there plus a shield, right?  I think they are red and blue.  If so, red is battery and blue is audio.  Or, for two wire, short the blue and shield together and connect red to the battery box.

Have fun!

  Richard
Title: Re: Help needed to ID connector on Sennheiser MKE-40-3 mics
Post by: hyperplane on July 07, 2006, 10:40:05 PM
Quote from: poorlyconditioned on July 07, 2006, 09:28:50 PM
Cool.  Keep the connectors.  They may be worth something to someone with old K3 mics.  These are the generation of small diaphragm condensers before the current K6.

So, there should be two wires in there plus a shield, right?  I think they are red and blue.  If so, red is battery and blue is audio.  Or, for two wire, short the blue and shield together and connect red to the battery box.

Have fun!

  Richard



Yep, 2 conductor wires (red + blue) and a shield.  On the original ueberwolf connector, the blue wire + shield were shorted to the "shell" of the cylinder/connector; the red wire was shorted to the single pin.

So, when on the phone with Sennheiser, I confirmed that for connecting a mini-plug, to short the red wire to Left/Right channels (Tip/Ring) and the blue wires + shield wires to the sleeve of the mini-plug. Seems to work like a champ in my home tests. Now I'm wanting to test it in the field.  8)

Thanks for the post, Richard. Hopefully this thread will be of aid to someone else in the future.