It was a long time wish to have a speaker/amp selector board. Whatever were available in the market were all imported and either flimsy or too costly. Finally decided to build one at home. First the hunt for a good sturdy two way four pole switch started. Ultimately settled on this switch which is typically used in electrical panels.
Plan was to get two switches and 16 speaker binding posts and use the switch to direct the output from one of two amps to one of the two speaker pairs I had. One switch would select the amp and the other switch would select the speaker. The next challenge was to get a good housing made and @Beginner_N was kind enough to make one. Thank you Nishant. The initial design was to have one box but the though of having 16 binding posts on the back didn't visualize well in my mind. So we made two boxes and ordered two more switches.
The bare speaker box
Assembly in progress. I used only two of the four poles.
Final assembled boxes. Tested with multimeter which showed 0 ohms (in reality it must be few milliohms).
These boxes will be very near the speakers (one on the left and one on the right). I now need to make 4 pair of short speaker wires terminated with spade or banana connector. That will be for tomorrow.
Plan was to get two switches and 16 speaker binding posts and use the switch to direct the output from one of two amps to one of the two speaker pairs I had. One switch would select the amp and the other switch would select the speaker. The next challenge was to get a good housing made and @Beginner_N was kind enough to make one. Thank you Nishant. The initial design was to have one box but the though of having 16 binding posts on the back didn't visualize well in my mind. So we made two boxes and ordered two more switches.
The bare speaker box
Assembly in progress. I used only two of the four poles.
Final assembled boxes. Tested with multimeter which showed 0 ohms (in reality it must be few milliohms).
These boxes will be very near the speakers (one on the left and one on the right). I now need to make 4 pair of short speaker wires terminated with spade or banana connector. That will be for tomorrow.
