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Title: volume help
Post by: smythe on September 28, 2006, 10:40:53 am

hi ive a jamma loom in a cab
i have one volume button this has 3 contacts how do i hook my speakers up to this?
i have four wires from my speakers

cheers smythe

Title: Re: volume help
Post by: ChadTower on September 28, 2006, 10:49:13 am

Volume button doesn't wire directly to the speakers.  It wires to whatever is producing the audio.

Volume pot would have three contacts - max, min, and ground.

Speakers each have two.  In and out. 

Title: Re: volume help
Post by: smythe on September 28, 2006, 02:46:25 pm

hi help me out here
we have speaker +&- from jamma
& 2 speakers with 2 wires from each..
how do i wire these to the pot?

cheers in advance smythe

Title: Re: volume help
Post by: Stingray on September 28, 2006, 04:25:02 pm

http://www.pachislo.com/pachislo/parts_detail/volume.html

Top item on the page 5 for $15. These are inline volume pots that are made for pachinko/ pachislo machines, but I don't see why they wouldn't also work in an arcade cab. The only problem is that you have one pot for each speaker, so you have to set your left & right volumes independantly.

-S

Title: Re: volume help
Post by: Q*Bert_OP on September 28, 2006, 04:25:58 pm

Quote from: Stingray on September 28, 2006, 04:25:02 pm

http://www.pachislo.com/pachislo/parts_detail/volume.html

Top item on the page 5 for $15. These are inline volume pots that are made for pachinko/ pachislo machines, but I don't see why they wouldn't also work in an arcade cab. The only problem is that you have one pot for each speaker, so you have to set your left & right volumes independantly.

-S

Might not work...different resistance lavels...

Title: Re: volume help
Post by: ChadTower on September 28, 2006, 04:28:27 pm

It would work... it's just a resistor.  It would probably not work the way he wants it to, though.

Title: Re: volume help
Post by: 2600 on September 28, 2006, 04:41:44 pm

Looks like it is wired wrong so don't buy it.  You don't want a resistor.

Search for the link to oscarcontrols site on basically how to do it.  Do another search from Peale as he asked this question about a year or two ago.

Title: Re: volume help
Post by: diverdown on September 28, 2006, 07:53:13 pm

If the volume control looks anything like the second picture on the above linked page
http://www.pachislo.com/pachislo/parts_detail/volume.html
Mind you it doesn't look like it is wires right in the pic

Then you have in out and ground

So if u have two speakers join the two + wires of the input together and the two + wires of the output together and all the -ve wires together

Now you have three wires  in out and ground

But without a pic i am guessing

Title: Re: volume help
Post by: SirPeale on September 28, 2006, 08:42:58 pm

Quote from: 2600 on September 28, 2006, 04:41:44 pm

Do another search from Peale as he asked this question about a year or two ago.

Wow...good memory!

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=43512.0

Title: Re: volume help
Post by: Spaz Monkey on September 30, 2006, 01:57:32 am

So would it be something like this:  from the harness, speaker+ as input, and from the volume control to the speaker, the speaker+ wire?