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Get a 3.5mm headphone cable, cut one end off, attach one channel to the speaker leads and play some tunes from your phone?
Hot wiring a car ! Are you from New Jersey by any chance ? 😁😁😁
Another (dumb?) speaker question: In order to increase the weight of my BLI PA's, I managed to install a number of tungsten disks in various available spaces within the body, including one disk on top of the speaker magnet It never occurred to me that may be a bad idea. Could that be the reason for the speaker failure? Thanks, Otto K.
Hmmm.Seems to be some serious thread drift here . . . The speakers used by BLI for the Paragon 2 decoders are 50 ohms. Like Pete, I doubt that a tungsten disk on top would lead to failure. Sometimes speakers die. Sometimes audio amps on decoders also die for no particular reason. My own experience with the Paragon 2 decoder in BLI's PA's was not a happy one. I didn't think the sound was very good; found the programming of the decoder inscrutable and vastly different from everything else I had on my layout. So I replaced the decoder with an ESU LokSound and the speaker with an 11x15mm. Yeah, I know - now I have a useless sound decoder (the Paragon) that I paid for when buying the PA's. But the end result made me much happier. The conversion really isn't that hard to do - there's lots of space in there.https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=38618.0John C.
John, no argument about the ESU's. But, a big BUT. Hear me out:I have nine of these pups, I find the programming easy, and the sound pretty good (Paragon 3 rocks, imho). And I like the ability to "crank up" the sound (F8 double). But the real reason: there are about sixty other DC locos awaiting conversion to DCC and sound. I'd rather spend money and effort on those than ripping out decoders out of these units that are already equipped. But that's just me...😜Otto