On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Tal Bejerano - AMC wrote:

>Hi
>
>I am holding 2 Electret condenser microphones but can't tell the pinouts. I
>assume the pin that connected to the body it's ground. but I know one is +v
>and the other one is output.
>are there a way to know for sure?

Yes, get the data sheet ;-)

The body is always ground on condenser microphones. The V+ must be
supplied through a resistor (~15K for 9V) into the 'other' pin, which is
also the output.

Peter

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