L B Masters
- Nov 30, 2016
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View attachment 30585 Hi all, hope I'm in the right place.
I'm new to electronics, but I can follow directions,lol.
I have a situation where I wired a headphone jack to the speaker wires
of my ACX450 Behringer acoustic guitar amp.
45 watt output, 4 Ohm speaker.
I used 1/4" mono jack with the contact that disconnects the speaker when the phones are
plugged in. I've read all the warnings about running an amp with no load to the speaker wires,
but it's not actually cutting the load, but switching the load to the phones.
Besides most techies say a solid state amp isn't affected by no load operation like tube amps are.
In any case, I WILL NOT run the amp through the phones until I get the correct value and placement of resisters
to get the volume close to the level it would be through the speaker for practice.
The problem I have is that It's drastically overdriving the phones.
Does anyone know of a diagram to wire this jack for the correct for
a resistance range that will allow me to use phones at a higher volume than 1 or 2 at the most.
I'm new to electronics, but I can follow directions,lol.
I have a situation where I wired a headphone jack to the speaker wires
of my ACX450 Behringer acoustic guitar amp.
45 watt output, 4 Ohm speaker.
I used 1/4" mono jack with the contact that disconnects the speaker when the phones are
plugged in. I've read all the warnings about running an amp with no load to the speaker wires,
but it's not actually cutting the load, but switching the load to the phones.
Besides most techies say a solid state amp isn't affected by no load operation like tube amps are.
In any case, I WILL NOT run the amp through the phones until I get the correct value and placement of resisters
to get the volume close to the level it would be through the speaker for practice.
The problem I have is that It's drastically overdriving the phones.
Does anyone know of a diagram to wire this jack for the correct for
a resistance range that will allow me to use phones at a higher volume than 1 or 2 at the most.