Old School Speaker Conversion

by jreah in Circuits > Audio

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Old School Speaker Conversion

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Tools you will need:
Wire cutters
Screwdriver Philips mainly
Soldering iron and fluxed solder
Speakers old and new

Picking the Speakers

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For this I used an old pair of computer speakers that had been lying around for years, the speaker inside was perforated but it's the wiring we want from these

Choosing the New Speakers

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Instead of fixing my iPhone docking station where the red and black connectors on the back have been smashed I decided to utilise the headphone port on the front and revamp the existing speakers

The Take Down

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Taking apart the old speakers is fairly simple there are 2 screws normally found on bottom of each speaker.
Taking off the front is very easy as it is just wedged in.
Once the front cover is off you should see 2 more screws (remember this won't be the same for every speaker) .
Once this has has been striped down we are left with a multitude of wires, motherboard and transformer

Rebuild

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I basically reverse engineered this project memorising where all the wires went, some soldering involved but not a lot,
Inside the new speakers I have placed the transformer and extended the wires slightly to compensate for the location.

Shortened the speaker wire as the motherboard will be attached to this later

Finished

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Now the speakers are rebuilt, the motherboard has an on off switch and volume control.
I decided having the motherboard on the outside because I love seeing how it all works.

This is my first post on here I hope it was kind of helpful.