Concertone problems

wishin-N-fishin wrote:
I have a Concertone ZX600 that I am having issues with. The living room speakers quit working. The exterior speakers, bedroom speakers, and sub woofer all still work. I pulled the head unit and the wires going to the living room speakers have no continuity signal on my meter. Could it be the board or an internal fuse of some sort? Could it be time for a new unit?

The living room speakers SHOULD give you some sort of low ohms reading (3-4 ohms perhaps since a Ohm meter uses DC not A.C.).

Are you SURE you have the plus and minus wire identified for EACH speaker?

With the wires disconnected from the stereo take a AA battery (you might need a helper for this) and quickly connect and disconnect the battery to one of the speaker wires (need to make SURE you get both + and (-) wires for one of the speakers). This should give you some sort of "thump" at the speaker (that is where the "helper comes in handy to HEAR that thump if speaker is far away from your earshot).

No thump, then remove one of the speakers from the wall or ceiling and try taking an ohm reading of each speaker (eliminates the wire).

If no Ohm reading at the speaker then speaker is "open" or bad.

If you get a reading then you have a possible broken wire..