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[pandaweaver]

Hey everyone.
As you might has guessed from my profile, I am a newbie to all pachislos, and I just cannot wait till it arrives (Thanks 777Heaven)

However, from what I can tell, the Thunderbirds machine is rather loud, and the volume switch only has three choices, and that is still too loud for home use.

Rather than the use of adding htings in by rewiring, or adding variable resistors, does anyone know of a quick fix to make it quiet. I don't really have the time to buy a volume adjuster.

Alex

[alstonj1]

the cheapest alt. is to get some 47 ohm resistors from radio shack they cost 99 cents for a pack of 5 . while there get some male and female faston connectors . put one on each end of the resistor , then unplug one speaker wire and plug in the resistor to the wire then connect the other end to the speaker repeat this for each speaker . this causes no permanent damage to the wiring and cuts half the volume . you can then use the volume switch to adjust the volume as intended . whole cost less than five bucks and ten min . work.

of course you could always do the Neanderthal method of adding cotton balls in the speaker housing instead ........

[pandaweaver]

I hate to look stupid, but what it "Radio Shack"?

I live in England (UK) so i don't really know where to go?

Cheers for the advice so far though!

Alex

[RKnarr01]

you could temporarly throw some cotton balls into the speakers.

[alstonj1]

[quote=pandaweaver]I hate to look stupid, but what it "Radio Shack"?

radio shack is a electronic store in the U.S. any good electronics supplier should be able to get them for you.

[pandaweaver]

Oh cheers!
By the way is thunderbirds loud, it does have a volume switch!

Thanks

Alex

[d mowery]

cotton balls or a old sock is the fastest and lowest cost

[drcrippen324]

radio shack is the equivelent of the uk maplins the link is http://www.maplin.co.uk/ and yes they have all you need on that list

[alstonj1]

Yes its loud and it does have a volume switch with the following positions 1.too loud, 2.even louder,3.deafening !!!!!

[Richt]

LOUD!!! Doesn’t even come close to describing the level of sound that came out of the thunderbirds machine the first time I hit the spinner. It scared the ***p out of me… but it wasn’t till I hit my first fever round that I discovered how truly deafening it was. My wife forbid me from playing it in the house unless I did something about the sound.

I tried the switches and found that it was originally set to “medium”. Then I tried the cotton ball trick. It helped, but it also distorted the sound a lot. Then I spotted the 50 ohm resister mod. The results were better then I expected. Not only was it now at tolerable volumes, but the quality of the sound was even better, with no background hum. I highly recommend this mod

[Sid]

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[drcrippen324]

Welcome to the funny farm we call pachitalk where fun is the main part of the daily diet along with a side order of info on machanics electronics and a pudding of laughs with fellow people intrested in the same things

oh nice avatar by the way he kinda cute

[alstonj1]

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[MrGneiss]

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[DrDark]

Don't forget DUCT TAPE.
Place it completely over the speaker grills.
Works wonders and is easily removed.