Quick Question On Speakers

[Labrauer]

I have installed a 802 radio in my 48 Plymouth but don't have a speaker in the car. The car is still positive ground and I was wondering if a modern speaker would work for this type of set up or do I have to fine an orignal speaker some place.

Thanks for the responce,

Larry Brauer

[martybose]

I have installed a 802 radio in my 48 Plymouth but don't have a speaker in the car. The car is still positive ground and I was wondering if a modern speaker would work for this type of set up or do I have to fine an orignal speaker some place.

Thanks for the responce,

Larry Brauer

A modern speaker will work fine; I ran a Radio Shack-sourced one in my 47 for years.

Marty

[Captain Neon]

The problem arises when one tries to use an old speaker on a modern stereo system.

[Young Ed]

Some of the old radios have the power draw of the speaker planned into the power supply of the entire thing. So if you don't use the old fashioned powered speaker the radio burns up. I have heard it both ways on the 802s. I am using a non-powered speaker in mine and its yet to burn up so I guess these are ok. Just keep it in mind if you are playing with something else.

[BobT-47P15]

I think the original speakers were "electromagnetic"....and one of the

wires from the radio (Which is incorporated in that round plastic plug)

provided power. The other two wires were typical speaker wires.

At least, I think that's how it is.

So all ya gotta do now is determine which two wires operate the

speaker. Have heard numerous people say a modern speaker seems

to work OK. I would get a fairly good quality speaker since the old

cheapie one I have begins getting fuzzy when I turn up the volume

in order to hear over the noise of the car.

Hope that helps some anyway.

I expect there are some more expert folks on this topic

than me.

[Plymouthy Adams]

to help better explain this..the magnet for the voice coil in the old pseakers were wire wound/iron core electro-magnet thus the reason for the other two wires....the modern permanent magnet you only need the voice coil connections

[P-12 Tommy]

This might sound like a dumb question and I don't mean to hijack, but my radio has three wires. Battery, ground and V.C. (voice coil I presume) How do you run the speaker? voice coil wire to speaker, then the other post on speaker to ground? I have a rebuilt Motorola Golden Voice radio that I installed a while back and haven't put the speaker in yet. Thanks for any input.

Tom

[jcmiller]

Does this help? It is from the 1946 manual for the 802 radio.

[Dan Hiebert]

A ray of sunshine through parting storm clouds and angels singing - this forum comes through again. My speaker diaphram went the way of the dodo a long time ago, and I've been searching for someone to fix it with no luck. Never even thought of putting a newer speaker in the car becuase of the 4 point connector on the original vs. 2 point on new ones.

[Labrauer]

Anybody know what the ohms are on a 802 plymouth radio. How much it puts out for the speaker?

[Plymouthy Adams]

Voice Coil.....3.58 ohms

Field Resistance 4.25 ohms..

Chrysler 802 is actually the Motorola Model CR6

see this link..bit fuzzy on my computer..

http://oldmopar.com/p15/P15radioa.pdf