Use this Button to Contact Us about Ordering a Pre-Made Auxiliary Input Jack Assembly If there is enough interest with our readers for this Audio Jack, I will consider offering it as a pre-made item for sale. Use the "System Volume" or "Program Volume" adjustment on your Master Station to compensate for the difference in volume. You might find that even with volume turned all the way up on your music device (iPod), the sound level from the Intercom System is lower than when you listen to the Radio. Use a 1/8" to 1/8" Stereo Plug Cable (what ever length works best for your installation) to connect your music device (iPod) to the Master Station. Now you are ready to listen to music from your own audio device. Most models have at least 2 inputs jacks to choose from. Select the AUX or TAPE jacks. This type of out-of-control drilling can cause the drill bit to hit a circuit board and RUIN IT ( You have now been warned!)ĭrill the hole, mount the 1/8" Audio Jack to the faceplate and plug the RCA Connector on the end of the Audio Cable into one of the Auxiliary Input connections on the back of the Intercom Master Station. The reason I choose to use the Irwin Unibit to drill the hole is because it will cut a very clean, round hole for the jack, it's easy to control the size of the hole and because conventional twist drill bits can grab the plastic of the faceplate and pull themselves in too fast. You will also need to look at the layout of the circuit boards on the back of the faceplate to find an area that has enough room to mount the jack easily. I usually choose the side or the bottom of the Master Station's Faceplate to mount the jack. Now it's time to consider where on your NuTone Master Station the jack should be mounted.
Your 1/8" jack is now complete and ready to be installed in the NuTone Master Station. Then, solder the Outer wire from the cable to the single ground lug. Use the Center Wire in the Audio cable and solder it to the 2 lugs on the back of the jack (now right and left channels are mixed together). Turning the Stereo Jack into a Mono Jack is easy.
(Red arrow is the Ground connection, Blue arrows are the Center wire connection, Yellow arrow is the RCS plug) The Audio Jack has 3 connections on it (solder lugs) the 2 lugs on the back of the Jack are the Right and Left Channel (stereo) connections and the single lug at the top is the Ground (just one ground for both right and left channel is required). The Audio Cable has two wires inside of it the center wire is the Audio (positive) and the outer wire is the Ground (negative). For those of you who don't solder, ask a friend who does to help you. To make up the Audio Jack and Cable, soldering is required. Shielded Cable, RCA Plug to Tinned Wires Model 42-2371Īnd from Home Depot (or another hardware store):ġ) Irwin High Speed Steel Fractional Self-Starting UNIBIT Model 10231.
You will need two items from Radio Shack:ġ) 1/8: Stereo Panel Mount Audio Jack Model 274-249ġ) 6-Ft. I sourced all of the parts from my local Radio Shack (every town has a Radio Shack) and the drill bit from my local Home Depot (again, everyone goes to Home Depot). There isn't any off-the-shelf kit that will have this setup, but it's easy to make from commonly available parts. To have both channels of your stereo source play through the intercom system together, the audio jack has to be wired to mix the channels inside the jack.
Your NuTone Music Intercom System is a Mono System (the right and left channel audio are combined into one channel). All of the modern devices I mentioned are Stereo Music Devices (they all have both right and left channel audio). There are a few considerations to make this type of connection work correctly. You can also connect your smart phone to the system.
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This includes portable or table-top CD players, and almost all MP3 players including iPods and iPads. When this type of jack is mounted to your NuTone Intercom master station, you can connect almost any type of external music source to play throughout your music intercom system. It looks just like the ear bud jack on your MP3 player of smart phone. The 1/8" audio jack is the most common size used today for modern audio devices. One of the most common and useful additions to any NuTone Music Intercom Master Station is a modern 1/8" (3.5mm) Audio Jack.
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