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    Posted: 23 Jun 2016 at 5:44pm
I thought this would be a simple add-on - no.

This is for the Jensen AWM968.

It has three paired output speakers.  Speaker A inside; Speaker B, outside; and Speaker C is not hooked up.  So I thought putting in a headphone jack would be straight forward without any issues.  But I found out that the wiring is a bit different from most other stereos.

I purchased a 1/4" headphone jack from Radio Shack.  Drilled a 3/8" hole through the video out plate.

I mounted the jack to the plate and soldered two-sets of speaker wires, about two-feet long each, to the jack and connected these wires to the wires leading out of the Jensen for Speaker set C:

Left channel to the tip (C_L+)
Right channel to the mid-contact (C_R+)
Ground (base) to the (C_R-)

Do not connect the jack base to C_L-

Normally one does this, but not on this unit.  It causes a short circuit.  Tape it closed and place it out of the way.

Now I can watch cheesy movies with the headphones while my wife sleeps...

John
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