Jupiter Ace

From: Peter C. Wallace <pcw_at_mesanet.com>
Date: Thu Mar 20 17:51:00 2003

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Philip Pemberton wrote:

> ben franchuk wrote:
> >> Yeah, it's a 220 ohm squeeker. And I need to find a replacement...
> >> As if I don't have enough to do, what with the hole re-drilling and
> >> the track re-building...
> > squeeker !? got mice problems.
> A squeeker is generally defined as a speaker that can produce high frequency
> sounds really well, but is crap at reproducing low-frequency (bass) sounds.
> An example would be the piezo speaker in a laptop.
>
> > Can't you add a simple amp and drive a
> > regular speaker? Ben.
> Maybe. But that would be a kludge at best and I'd like to get my Ace to look
> reasonably original. Then again, there's always the Ace's earphone jack...
> And if I can get a speaker that's small enough, it's likely that the Ace's
> driver circuit could run it.

How about a transistor radio sized matching (~5 --> 1) tranformer? You could
glue that to the back of an 8 ohm speaker.


>
> Later.
> --
> Phil.
> philpem_at_dsl.pipex.com
> http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/
>

Peter Wallace
Received on Thu Mar 20 2003 - 17:51:00 GMT

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