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RCI 2995DX CF Hi - Low power switch
- Thread starter Crambone
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Ah, the dreaded "suicide switch". Sooner or later you'll key the mike into your low-drive amplifier and THEN discover the switch is in HIGH side position.
Generally not pretty.
Here's what one customer wanted to prevent this from happening. Said he never uses the headphone jack. Now it's a High-Side status light.
Just shoved the 5mm LED into the headphone jack from inside.
You'll need a DPDT switch, one side to disable the amplifier, the other side for the LED.
This guy hasn't been back with a blown amplifier section since.
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Generally not pretty.
Here's what one customer wanted to prevent this from happening. Said he never uses the headphone jack. Now it's a High-Side status light.
Just shoved the 5mm LED into the headphone jack from inside.
You'll need a DPDT switch, one side to disable the amplifier, the other side for the LED.
This guy hasn't been back with a blown amplifier section since.
73
Excellent idea, I never use headphones and don’t like holes.Ah, the dreaded "suicide switch". Sooner or later you'll key the mike into your low-drive amplifier and THEN discover the switch is in HIGH side position.
Generally not pretty.
Here's what one customer wanted to prevent this from happening. Said he never uses the headphone jack. Now it's a High-Side status light.
Just shoved the 5mm LED into the headphone jack from inside.
You'll need a DPDT switch, one side to disable the amplifier, the other side for the LED.
This guy hasn't been back with a blown amplifier section since.
73
So I’m looking inside the radio and I’m unsure we’re the brown and green wire are coming from? I have a green & yellow coming off J22 and going to the amp. The only brown I see comes from J5 and looks to be going to rec/12v jack on the back of the radio. Am I correct in thinking your using the brown to disconnect the fan and green breaks the ground going to the amp from J22?
Ah, the brown and green wire are the side that turns the amplifier on and off.
At least one of those two wires was added to the radio, not a factory color.
Didn't think to mention that what the pic is meant to show is the two LED wires, not the amplifier-standby side. Wasn't trying to show how to shut off the linear.
Seems RCI likes to shuffle the colors of the two wires coming from 2-pin socket J22. It's located just to the front of the driver transistor. The pin on the side nearest the outer edge is ground. The hot wire that keys the amplifier is the inboard-side pin of J22.
Whatever color wire leads to that pin is the one you break with the switch to obtain barefoot operation.
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At least one of those two wires was added to the radio, not a factory color.
Didn't think to mention that what the pic is meant to show is the two LED wires, not the amplifier-standby side. Wasn't trying to show how to shut off the linear.
Seems RCI likes to shuffle the colors of the two wires coming from 2-pin socket J22. It's located just to the front of the driver transistor. The pin on the side nearest the outer edge is ground. The hot wire that keys the amplifier is the inboard-side pin of J22.
Whatever color wire leads to that pin is the one you break with the switch to obtain barefoot operation.
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I just talked to Barkett's Electronics, and the guy said they cut the BROWN wire and add a switch.
It goes to the relay to switch high power.
It goes to the relay to switch high power.
Just did one today. Green and yellow wire on that plug. The yellow wire is the hot side that goes through the new switch on this one. Green wire is ground.
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Hey, if that plug has a brown and black wire, go with it.
Hard to use the brown wire when one of them is yellow, the other one green.
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Hard to use the brown wire when one of them is yellow, the other one green.
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Like I say...
You have Green and Yellow and Brown and Black on the main board.
I'm using the one the tech said ti, it goes to the relay in the amp board
Please don't keep bothering me.
You have Green and Yellow and Brown and Black on the main board.
I'm using the one the tech said ti, it goes to the relay in the amp board
Please don't keep bothering me.
Just so you know because you're new here and really dont know anyone, Nomad is a tech who has a very successful shop. Its not even your year old thread you dredged up and commented on.
Stop bothering me
