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Strange red and black buttons I've never seen before

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  • 21-07-2013 4:54pm
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    wayne0308
    Registered Users Posts: 428 ✭✭


    Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask this. I just got the keys to an apartment I started renting and came across these red and black buttons in the sitting room that I've never seen before.

    There are three of these in the sitting room and they appear nowhere else in the apartment. I didn't have time to figure them out but I pressed the red and black buttons in but they only go in so far and are sprung to go back to the same position as in the pic. I had to head off then but took a couple of pics to ask on here.

    I had thought they were a switch of some sort but I'm not sure. It almost seems like it's a electrical socket for some kind of plug and the sprung red and black buttons just protect it from people putting their fingers in?

    Any ideas?


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    BrianDug
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    Possible that its for speaker cables?


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    Bing_IRL
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    They look like speaker terminals


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    wayne0308
    Registered Users Posts: 428 ✭✭wayne0308


    You could be right, I never even thought of that. The owner must have had a serious home entertainment system to go to that bother. The terminals are only on three of the walls opposite the corner where the tv would most likely go so maybe for surround sound?

    Thanks for the help, I was really scratching my head on this one :o


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    djimi
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    Yes surround sound system sounds likely. I would be over the moon to move into a place that had a setup like that!


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    wayne0308
    Registered Users Posts: 428 ✭✭wayne0308


    djimi wrote: »
    Yes surround sound system sounds likely. I would be over the moon to move into a place that had a setup like that!

    I can't remember seeing cables in the corner where the tv would go but they must be there, I'd love to make use of it if I could.


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    quietsailor
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    A friend set up a system similar to this, instead of wires running along the floor and looking messy the owner ran them behind the walls

    there should be corresponding outlets where ever the surround sound system was set up, you'll connect the surround sound speaker output to the panel near the surround sound and then the speaker to the panel you have in the picture -


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    omb0wyn5ehpij9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,095 ✭✭✭✭omb0wyn5ehpij9


    djimi wrote: »
    Yes surround sound system sounds likely. I would be over the moon to move into a place that had a setup like that!

    I'm of the exact same thinking!


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