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dedmiston
Jan 25, 2022Moderator
I hadn't thought of this in years. What a mess with the outdoor speakers. Yes, it came "prewired" as they claimed, but that only meant that they ran some speaker wires from the cabinet where the head unit was out to the belly of the trailer. Nothing else was done. And the inside speakers were hooked up wrong so that the balance and fader kind of canceled each other out without any way to turn down the sound in the bedroom.
This was a long time ago for me (2005), but I remember pulling out the head unit to fix all of their wiring and then dealing with the outdoor speakers at the same time.
Once I hooked up everything on the inside, I added some outdoor weatherproof outlet covers under the belly with female banana plug outlets in the boxes. Then I added male banana plugs to some decent speakers and connected them whenever we wanted outdoor sound.
This was all before BT speakers were a viable option. I don't bother with the outdoor speakers anymore. It's easier to drag the stand-alone speaker outside and connect it to the phone in my pocket. The fidelity is way better and I don't have to keep going inside to control the playback.
This was a long time ago for me (2005), but I remember pulling out the head unit to fix all of their wiring and then dealing with the outdoor speakers at the same time.
Once I hooked up everything on the inside, I added some outdoor weatherproof outlet covers under the belly with female banana plug outlets in the boxes. Then I added male banana plugs to some decent speakers and connected them whenever we wanted outdoor sound.
This was all before BT speakers were a viable option. I don't bother with the outdoor speakers anymore. It's easier to drag the stand-alone speaker outside and connect it to the phone in my pocket. The fidelity is way better and I don't have to keep going inside to control the playback.
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