Hacking a Douglas Fir With No Aux Jack |
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RCA jacks: if you have RCA jacks you can buy a cord that will plug into the RCA jacks at one end, and the other end goes to a headphone style connection. Radio Shack has one for about $4.99 Cat.#: 42-2489 but I have seen them at other stores for less. In order to hook up all the lose wires from what's left of the tree, you will need to cut of the end of the cable that has the headphone style connection on it, and strip all the wires back so you can twist all the wires together. OK, now take both the green leads coming from the face motor and the eye motor and attach them together. Then attach one of the brown wires coming from the eyeball lights (they start out as two double green wires, and are attached to brown ones by the factory) to one of the white speaker wires. Then do the same for the other brown wire with the other white speaker wire. If you don't want the eyes to light up, you can leave the brown wires disconnected, and just use the speaker. Also, you can attach whatever speaker to the RCA jack that you want instead of the one that came with your tree if it is not powerful enough for your liking. Now connect the negative lead of the RCA jack to the black wire coming off of the mouth motor, and then attach the positive lead of the RCA jack to the two green wires coming from both the motors. You should now have mouth and eye movement if you turn on your stereo. If you see no movement, either turn up the bass (this is the power channel of sound, as it moves the speakers the most) or turn up the volume. If still no movement, try flip flopping the wires so the positive lead is going to the black and vise-versa. Once you have the motors operating correctly, you can hook up the speaker and eye lights to the other channels leads. It doesn't matter which goes where, the speaker will still work either way. However, if you notice that the speaker retracts on loud sounds instead of "pumping" like it should, reverse the wires. That's it, you now have a talking Douglas Fir without the jack, and no need for a battery pack or AC adapter. Also, if you want more mouth movement but less sound coming out, you can simply adjust the left/right balance towards the side that the motors are attached, or do just the opposite if you want more volume. Wire Jacks: if you have the little push button wire style jacks you can just hook up wires to the leads and plug those into the back of your stereo. To make the connection, first take both the green leads coming from the face motor and the eye motor and attach them together. Then attach one of the brown wires coming from the eyeball lights (they start out as two double green wires, and are attached to brown ones by the factory) to one of the white speaker wires. Then do the same for the other brown wire with the other white speaker wire. If you don't want the eyes to light up, you can leave the brown wires disconnected, and just use the speaker. Also, you can attach whatever speaker to the output speaker wire that you want instead of the one that came with your tree if it is not powerful enough for your liking. Now connect the negative lead of the speaker wire output to the black wire coming off of the mouth motor, and then attach the positive lead of the speaker wire output to the two green wires coming from both the motors. You should now have mouth and eye movement if you turn on your stereo. If you see no movement, either turn up the bass (this is the power channel of sound, as it moves the speakers the most) or turn up the volume. If still no movement, try flip flopping the wires so the positive lead is going to the black and vise-versa. Once you have the motors operating correctly, you can hook up the speaker and eye lights to the other channels leads. It doesn't matter which goes where, the speaker will still work either way. However, if you notice that the speaker retracts on loud sounds instead of "pumping" like it should, reverse the wires. That's it, you now have a talking Douglas Fir without the jack, and no need for a battery pack or AC adapter. Also, if you want more mouth movement but less sound coming out, you can simply adjust the left/right balance towards the side that the motors are attached, or do just the opposite if you want more volume.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 15 January 2014 13:46 |