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Item nr.


Gerard's Dummy Load

Speaker with switches and resistors.


Data for Gerard's Dummy
ProductionThe Netherlands, 2019.
Price was 50ct.
CabinetPlastic.
DocumentsSchema.

The Design

A small plastic test speaker, augmented with a few resistors and switches to serve as dummy load for small amplifiers.

Roughly, three components can be distinguished in the schema. The basic part, in black, is two resistors of 8 Ohm that can be seen by the test amplifier as load. They can be shunted (blue) by two more 8 Ohm resistors with switch S1, to form 4 Ohm loads. The final part, in green, is a monitor speaker. It can be switched (S2) to the right channel, nil, or the left channel. It can also be attenuated with switch S3. All resistors come from a package of 25 pieces of 22 Ohms: the 8 Ohms are formed of three parallel ones.


Obtained9/2019 from Home built.
Condition9.
Value (est.)1€.

This Object



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