Comments on: Solderless aux in for Bose sound dock, etc

By: Mel

Mel — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:34:08 +0000

I am totally ignorant. I have the 2 pieces that you mention, but I have no idea how to plug the dock adapter to the bose sound dock. HELP!!!! Also, does this work with iphone?

By: bose sucker

bose sucker — Fri, 22 May 2009 06:09:53 +0000

matt,

how did the cable work out for you?

is this the one you picked up?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Bose-Sounddock-Ipod-Female-End-to-3.5-mm-Male-Cable_W0QQitemZ220415632725QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 06:50:29 +0000

Bex,

It appears that that is all you would need. check out

http://www.amazon.com/Griffin-Dock-Adapter-shuffle-White/product-reviews/B000P6H7Y6/ref=cm_cr_pr_hist_5?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&filterBy=addFiveStar

I am going to pick up one tomorrow at wall mart and try it and give a update on here at that point! my guess is that it will work with the Ihome2go ih85, the electronics inside of it are probably very basic, the unit comes on with a power button even if the ipod is not connected. this little guy will probably do the trick

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 06:28:12 +0000

I’m having a hard time picturing this. I’d like to make a aux input for a battery powered ipod speaker (ihome2go Ih85) system, will this work? Does anyone have pictures? or links to the sound dock ect so that i can understand what this is doing?

By: Bex

Bex — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:15:09 +0000

So in order to connect my laptop do I then just need a headphone extension cable to connect to the belkin splitter?

By: chuck

chuck — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 21:27:07 +0000

Can someone help me, I’m looking for someone who can build me a prototype of an ipod accessory similar tto the Nike-ipod but not as complex……let me know if you know someone who can…thanks!!….cbradley28@gmail.com

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 05:41:55 +0000

Great hack on the sounddock with the Griffin shuffle adapter. Instead of the headset splitter, however, I used an 8mm female-female coupler adapter from Radio Shack with the Griffin adapter–about $4. Plus, I had to trim some of the plastic from the Griffin to make it fit tight.

Now I have an 8mm input plug without soldering a wire.

Works great, sounds great.

By: ...

... — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 19:49:12 +0000

If you can't use any semiconductors to drive your flyback, the way to go is to set up a relay as an oscillator and drive it with that. You just put 12v (or whatever) to the common terminal, ground to one side of the coil, and the other side of the coil to the nc contact. Then wire the flyback from ground to the no contact (or the nc one, which ever works best), and pick pins at random from the bottom to find whichever one gives the best sparks. Or wind about 10 turns on the exposed part of the core and wire that into the relay.

As to the 555 driven tesla coil, it is possible to just send pin 3 from the 555 into a mid sized mosfet (irfp460 would probably work) in an open drain topology, and feed the primary with that. Of couse with a solid state coil you want nice tight coupling (ie, wind the primary directly on the secondary), and you will have to constantly tune the 555's frequiency to keep the coil in tune. Really, it is worth it to go to a self resonant or preferably pll based topology, but if all you want is a litttle plasma a fixed frequiency would work.

BTW, 4hv.org is a great place to ask questions about anything HV

By: alex mccown

alex mccown — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:41:18 +0000

i like soldering and both of my irons (13-30watt and a 10watt smd iron) is on 24/7 but nice hack

ps does anyone here have a good reliable flyback driver thats not transistor driven (i got 4 flybacks tody) also does anyone have a 555 driven soled state tesla coil (not flyback) scmattic

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:01:07 +0000

my bad, its the altec lansing m602 not the m600.

sorry `bout that.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:37:30 +0000

the bose sound doc sucks. as you turn up the volume it cuts out the bass and treble allowing it to get louder without distortion,but you only get the mids.

however the altec lansing m600 has a flat response curve at all volumes. sure it cant get as loud as the sound doc but it does sound better, and it has an aux jack built in, and its only half the cost.