vader sound board not working.

[987654321a]

ok, ive just recieved a new mhs saber in the mail a couple days ago, and i took apart my vader ffx speaker out of the battery pack, i wired it up and everything was fine until i soldered the connections together, it just went dead. the thing just refused to work after that. im using a green lux 3w running off of 6v. here is an illustration of my connection

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[james3]

You have a soldered connection that is contacting something it shouldn't and grounding out. I am not sure of your drawing there but are you running power to the speaker? That won't help out very much.
Look at your solder spots and see if there was any run over.

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[987654321a]

still not working, idk whats wrong with it

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[Jedi-Loreen]

<font size="3"><font color="blue">Yeah I was wondering about that drawing, too, the speaker's supposed to get it's power from the board, not the battery.

In that drawing it doesn't look like it's hooked up to both speaker leads coming from the sound board.</font id="blue"></font id="size3">


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[Firebird21]

I do believe that the speaker is connected directly to the speaker, I don't feel like ripping one apart right this moment but the fact that there are only 3 connections on the Speaker/Battery pack tells me that there is 2 for S/B power and one for the Speaker... The other side of the speaker must then connect to the battery pack.

Try swapping the polarity on the speaker. Usually the Ground (- side) is attached and the common on a speaker hookup, and judging by the colors on your drawing you have the "+" attached to the speaker.

Reverse the leads to the speaker and see if that works. But I must note, if it doesn't work right away, don't keep trying, you may damage something, but if it's hooked up wrong, than that damage, if any, may have already occurred.

Good luck.


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[987654321a]

i did what u told me to do firebird but now it just gives a crackling sound

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[Firebird21]

What are the chanses you can post a pic of what you've got going on right now?



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[987654321a]

ill get pics posted up in about 10 mins

edit- here are the pics.





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[Firebird21]

Ok, bear with me...


I'm going to edit this a couple of times...


I have my Vader Bat/Pak appart... And am examining it.

Judging by the photos, it appears that you have/had (noticing the speaker is now out) it wired correctly....

What is that silver stuff? Is it cunductive?


Edit: Is this the way you last had it hooked up? When you made it crackle?

[987654321a]

ok

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