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These speakers provide really good sound for their price, and it seems they accomplished that by using some cheap components.
It is a known issue that the Powered Speaker Select switch often goes bad, resulting in no audio out of one or both speakers. You should try using some contact cleaner first, but that can end up being just a temporary solution.
This fix makes your selection of Left or Right powered speaker permanent, but apart from the Aux in on the front, it is easy to just plug in your audio cables ‘backwards’ to have the audio come out of the correct speakers if you want to change your setup later.
If you are halfway competent with a soldering iron, this is a quick and easy fix. You’ll need to supply your own wire for this.
This is my first guide, and I didn’t plan on making it when I did the fix, so sorry about the lack of photos and details. Nothing would make me happier than for someone to take this info, fix their own speakers, and put together a better version of this guide while doing so.
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Turn off your powered speaker, unplug it, and remove the 10 short Phillips head screws on the back that line the perimeter.
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Once removed, give it a little wiggle, and you can pull out the electronics from the casing pretty easily. A little care is required, as there is cabling connecting it to the speaker front, but there is enough slack that you don't need to worry about disconnecting for this fix.
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Arrange things so you have easy access to the underside of the circuit board, and the back panel to the right.
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The contact points we need to work on are the bottom 4 pins in the cluster of 6 pins, directly left of the switch, on the back of the circuit board.
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For the Powered speaker on the RIGHT, connect the top and bottom connections in that group of 4. Two parallel lines. ||
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For the Powered speaker on the LEFT, cross the top and bottom connections in that group of 4. Two intersecting lines. X
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Solder two short insulated wires to bridge the connections to hard wire your powered speaker to either Right or Left as desired. Finished result should look like the photo, (Right powered speaker selection) only cleaner, with no hastily added electrical tape shielding, because you are better at soldering than I am.
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Do make sure your wires lay pretty flat to the board so it won't get in the way when you slide it back in to the speaker casing.
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Optional Method: As a few users noted, placing the bare wire from an insulated wire on the pins and soldering them down ALSO WORKS. This method lays more flat, but really only works when doing the right speaker formation since they are parallel lines.
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To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
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You have saved my bacon in spending extraneous money on something so simple to fix. Thank you so much!!!
Just wanted to say thank you for creating this. I did my fix slightly different than how you outlined yours by just bridging the solder points in the parallel "right" configuration with bare stranded wire. A bit neater than doing it with larger loops of insulated wire....possibly a little more unsafe? but the strands aren't touching the circuit board that is insulated anyway so im fairly confident its fine. Speakers work great now
Thanks for the tip! I did this. It was way easier and seems to be working well. I would never have managed with loops of insulated wire. We are talking about just a few millimeters between each of those contact points!
To add on to what Track Smart said, I also just bridged the solder points with stranded wire and it worked!
I did the same thing. Worked great!
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