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Nvts’s mountain’s Jukebox (revealed!)
drawfull:
--- Quote from: edge on December 09, 2008, 05:16:02 pm ---nvts - have you taken apart your speakers yet? I am curious as to how you will relocate the volume knob?
I am (as is everyone else on this board) looking to create another mountain/nvts/drawfull/oldman/etc clone and am struggling on the speakers. I want it to sound good on its own (so no soundbar) and want to have it flush against the front grille (ie, challenging with knob).
Keep up the great work.
Edge
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We used a speaker set with separate volume control on a flying lead, which was straightforward. We had to extend the spindle of the subwoofer volume by a few inches thoughfor the knob to reach the rear of the base. See this post in my thread for pics
Nvts:
--- Quote from: edge on December 09, 2008, 05:16:02 pm ---nvts - have you taken apart your speakers yet? I am curious as to how you will relocate the volume knob?
I am (as is everyone else on this board) looking to create another mountain/nvts/drawfull/oldman/etc clone and am struggling on the speakers. I want it to sound good on its own (so no soundbar) and want to have it flush against the front grille (ie, challenging with knob).
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I'm using these klipsch speakers. (damn, they are on sale for $60 now...) I have them hooked up to my ipod now, and they sound wonderful. Goodly amounts of bass for a set without a subwoofer. When they lose power, they will turn off. when the power comes back on, you have to push the knob to turn them on. When they turn on, they are at a very low volume and you have to turn them up. Oh, and it sounds like a normal crappy 2 inch speaker when the front is pulled off from the body. :P
I pulled them apart to take a peek inside, and the volume knob/led are mounted on a tiny circuit board. The other end is hooked up into an 8x2 connector that slides right out (Looks like its a 16-Pin Edge Connector, yes? didn't see one on the Radio shack site. Would hate to have to order one ) and extend the whole board up where I expected the powermate board to go. Unless someone can make a suggestion how to make the powermate work, I think I might just use it on my computer, and find a replacement knob. Perhaps I can make a plexiglass one. :-\
You could easily use them and extend the knob and have the volume on the bottom. the front of the speakers are almost flat up and down ( they curve about 1/4 an inch like this \_____/. I thought they were indeed flat before I put it against the table.) and they have quite the curve side to side, but the volume is in the middle so it wouldn't be an issue at all. When I find a edge connector thingie, I'll see how easy it is to extend the cable and let you know.
DaOld Man:
Looking good nvts!
You might extend those wires by cutting them and soldering in an ide cable between the two cut pieces, or since there are eight wires, a cat-5e Ethernet cable may work. That would be a lot neater and take up less space.
Im worried about my powermate too.
I can fall back on a regular pot if need be. But Im quickly running out of time, so for now if it doesnt work, wife will have to cycle juke on and off. May have to install a regular pot after Christmas.
Im looking at that volume board you have, and it looks like it is just a pot with an led.
You might could use just a regular pot too, just measure the resistance on the pot on the board and buy a audio stereo pot the same value. Just a thought.
Nvts:
I actually think it will be easier than that. I think all I have to do is get a 16 pin connector and a piece of 10 wire flat ribbon cable and make an extension. The socket slipped right out of the master board on the other side.
If that connector fits on the other board, it's actually an easy, cheap solution... I would need to slice a small hole in the bottom of the speaker for the ribbon.
I wouldn't use the powermate, so I would just have to find a big snazzy knob to use instead. I'll pick up a connector tonight, and try to get it to work tomorrow. Right now, I am trying to figure out out how to add a SATA drive to my IDE only system. it's not liking the converter that I have, so it does not recognize the drive.
DaOld Man:
That sounds like a better idea.
Can you use an IDE cable? You can pull apart all the wires but 10. Just make sure it is the older 40 wire IDE cable, not the newer 80 wire. (40 wire is bigger gauge, I think.)
I have some old ones lying around I can send you, if you want.
Not sure about your sata problem, thats why I didnt go with a sata drive, since my MB doesnt have sata. Did the adapter come with any software drivers? Maybe you need to google the adapter model and see if others have fixed it.
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