On Mon, 6 Jun 2016 09:55:09 +0200, Look165
wrote:

Wires, alwayx wires.

The indirect speaker is just a "passive" box with a speaker.

Maybe speaker's winding is broken (still wire ! )

The speaker shows 4 ohms.
The LED on the (plastic) cabinet goes on, powered by the other
speaker.
The only other wires are the traces on the circuit board and 2"
wires that never move from the pcb to the speaker.

But if it's not possible for the capacitor to be causing this problem,
I'll look at the pcb and short wires too.

It's not my imagination, is it, that all the sound goes through the
1000uF cap?

The speakers were upstairs when I took the computer to the basement to
repair it, and they weren't used for a couple years.


Micky a écrit :
I have a pair of computer speakers and the left? one, the one not
directly connected to the computer, makes no sound.

The wire must be good because its LED goes on. I finally got it apart
(it was glued together) and it has very few parts. The speaker
measures 4 ohms and all that leaves is the wires, the tiny pcb, the
LED and one 1000uF 16v cap. It seems that all the sound goes through
that, is that right? So it could be the problem that it's open.

How come a cap is needed? To protect the sound card? 4 ohms is not
enough to protect it? Speakers can short?


I replaced the good speaker with old NIB Jensens at least as big, but
I think the sound is worse with stereo speakers than it was with one
speaker. Maybe I'm imagining it, but if I fix the 2nd speaker I can
find out if I am or not. The old ones are Harmon Kardon and the
speaker is only 2 or 2 1/4" but the magnet is really heavy.

Thanks