Outdoor speaker problem

[scotty1946]

2014 Passport 2200. Indoor speakers work fine on level 12. Have to turn outside speakers up to 34 to hear outside. Suggestions?

[JRTJH]

Try turning the speaker wires around on the output terminals on the back of your stereo. They may have the neg/pos terminals wired backwards.

[canesfan]

Also see where your Fader is set. On mine the front/rear fader controls the garage and outside speakers, If it's more to the front or rear instead of center you have to turn the radio up louder to hear the opposite pair of speakers. Hope that makes sense.

Also if it's like mine which doesn't use switches to turn pairs of speakers on and off, you can use the fader to turn pairs of speakers on and off, or up and down, by turning it more toward front or back.

[scotty1946]

Where do I find the fader control?

[2014Fuzion300]

Originally Posted by scotty1946

Where do I find the fader control?

In my radio, it is on the volume knob. You have to push it, every time you push it gives you different options.
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[scotty1946]

Clicked the button and all seems to be working fine. Thanks.

[PARAPTOR]

Originally Posted by scotty1946

2014 Passport 2200. Indoor speakers work fine on level 12. Have to turn outside speakers up to 34 to hear outside. Suggestions?

Ideally with a stereo system you want to match amplifier's output impedance (resistance) with its load (speakers) to get the max output/performance. You did not mention if when you turn on outside speakers if inside were off or on also?. As you know the more speakers you drive then more power is needed. Other than weather proof I would assume the inside and outside speakers would be about the same power capacity. I would hope that the designer would have maintained the same impedance while switching between different speakers/combinations. I have not had much opportunity to enjoy the radio outside. A ratio of 3 to 1 on the volume seems a lot to me, others with more experience with their systems may be able to provide more info

As far as polarity, based on my knowledge that should have no effect on volume as such. Speaker basically move air so ideally you want all speakers to respond the same to the signal, ie for example on the positive side of the signal you want all the speakers to be pushing air and vise versa on the negative side. Again this is very fine tuning