PA System - Connected To Stock Stereo, With An ON/OFF Switch...
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PA System - Connected To Stock Stereo, With An ON/OFF Switch...
On our hunting truck, I want to figure out a way to have a PA(outside speaker, basically) to be able to be connected to the stock stereo, and be turned off or on, by the flip of a switch...
The reason I want to do this, is that they make "Game Call" tapes and cd's, that I want to be able to play out of the truck...
Does anyone have an idea of how I could make this work?
The truck is a 99 F250 with the stock fm/am cd/tape player head unit...
Thanks in advance...
The reason I want to do this, is that they make "Game Call" tapes and cd's, that I want to be able to play out of the truck...
Does anyone have an idea of how I could make this work?
The truck is a 99 F250 with the stock fm/am cd/tape player head unit...
Thanks in advance...
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How much do you want to spend? Seriously?
Depending on what you want to do, run a small amp, one you can use by tapping into your rear door speakers, and run the speaker off of the amp, while having a turn on(remote)Blue wire, when it comes to amps) Running off a switch. On/Off
Its easy to do, buy the stuff, and i could do it for you.
Depending on what you want to do, run a small amp, one you can use by tapping into your rear door speakers, and run the speaker off of the amp, while having a turn on(remote)Blue wire, when it comes to amps) Running off a switch. On/Off
Its easy to do, buy the stuff, and i could do it for you.
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you could always buy a cheap, portable cd player, wire it into the electrical harness to get power to it and then run a speaker from that.
if you didnt want to listen to anything else while you had the calls going, you could wire and interupter or switch to all speakers and the switch would route the sound to your one speaker and disable all other speakers until you flipped the switch the other way. this would require a three way switch.
you might try finding the wiring schematic of any vehicle with surround sound and tv cuz my dad's yukon you could flip a switch to listen to the radio or wutever movie was playing. it was probably very similar to my previous statement.
if you didnt want to listen to anything else while you had the calls going, you could wire and interupter or switch to all speakers and the switch would route the sound to your one speaker and disable all other speakers until you flipped the switch the other way. this would require a three way switch.
you might try finding the wiring schematic of any vehicle with surround sound and tv cuz my dad's yukon you could flip a switch to listen to the radio or wutever movie was playing. it was probably very similar to my previous statement.
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Even better if you could find a way to hook it into ur iPod that way it doesnt play through the door speakers and you wouldnt have to splice wires, buy a switch, waste a CD to just burn calls on, and the iPod wouldnt get scratched up and skip like a CD that would be very cool if u fabbed it up that way.
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Yeah its easy to wire, but you'll need alot of switches. You'll need basically 1 switch for each channel/speaker to turn them off. Not sure, but I'd bet radio shack would have a few switches that can do 2 speakers at once, but I doubt you'll find one that can do 4 at once.
DPDT (Dual Pole, Dual Terminal?) switch: http://www.radioshack.com/product.as...5Fid=275%2D710
I'm not sure if that means 2 sets of terminals (I.E. 2 speakers per switch) or not.
Then you'll need another switch for the external speaker. The hardest part is chopping the stock wiring (not just tapping into the wire). But probably 10 bucks in switches and some wire and a cheap optimus speaker should do the trick.
We'll see if Bob or John have any more astute advice.
DPDT (Dual Pole, Dual Terminal?) switch: http://www.radioshack.com/product.as...5Fid=275%2D710
I'm not sure if that means 2 sets of terminals (I.E. 2 speakers per switch) or not.
Then you'll need another switch for the external speaker. The hardest part is chopping the stock wiring (not just tapping into the wire). But probably 10 bucks in switches and some wire and a cheap optimus speaker should do the trick.
We'll see if Bob or John have any more astute advice.
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