6 replies to this topic

[jarussel]

I am restoring a pair of AR-5s. Installed new L pads; am positive I wired them right; put in new Dayton Caps; fired the damn thing up and nothing -- I mean nothing out of the midrange.  I've included a picture below of the new crossover/L-Pads.  I've done a pair of 3As -- which work great.  It's not the midrange -- it worked fine before.  Any suggestions?  Could it be to connection from the coil wire to the mid-Lpad?  I soldered a connecting wire to give me more room.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.  Short of redoing everything, I'm not sure how to proceed -- except maybe just re-solder all the connections on the mid LPad?

Attached Thumbnails

• 

[rjr513]

make sure you have removed some of the mid coil coating by using a knife and scrape down until you see more of the copper of wiring this will make sure you have good bonding connection to your add on wire.

[jarussel]

I did it -- took care of the problem. Scraped off the red stuff the coil wire. Now I have a new problem -- I put new L pads in my second AR-5 and now nothing out of the damn tweeter. If it isn't one thing it's another. The tweeter is fine -- something wrong with damn wiring, I guess. I repeat by call for help -- ON MY NEW PROBLEM.....

[rjr513]

recheck the solder connection at your center B Terminal of the L-pad of Tweeter that solder connection looks questionable from photo also recheck the connection Terminal (2) of Tweeter L-pad where you have spliced the green wire to the Yellow under the black tape

[JKent]

Did you connect the wires correctly? The original pots had terminals marked B,1 and 2. The L-pad terminals are marked 1,2,3. Here is the "conversion:"
0riginal B = 2 on L-pad
Original 1 = 3
Original 2 = 1

Hope this helps.
Kent

[ar_pro]

Don't like the looks of some of the soldered connections, as well.
Review your leads, and then re-solder everything - it'll be worth it in the long run.

[ironlake]

I put in a new volume control just like one ones pictured her and it reverse the leads to the speakers so I have to reverse the terminals for proper phase. something is different on these pots. I connected the wire to the bottom lead on the original pot to the center lead and the outside leads to the same outside connections as the original pot. what did I do wrong? Now on the backi 0 is + and 1 is -