Subject: RE: Two dead AXPpxi33 boards?
To: 'Wilko Bulte' <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
From: David Woyciesjes <DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 10/18/2001 14:24:07
! > ! > ! A speaker connected to the board does nothing. 
! > ! > 
! > ! > Try reversing polarity?
! > ! 
! > ! Speakers don't do polarity [audio freaks: this is not your 
! > ! $10k audio system
! > ! ;-) ]
! > 
! > Well, they sort of do. It's a bit quieter if they're backwards..
! 
! No, they don't. Works either way.

	Okay, I'll put it this way. You are right, but I have run into many
different speakers, including PC speakers, that produce sound at a noticably
lower level when they are wired backwards. It is entirely possible that you
have not seen this happen. Such is the magic known as electronics... :-)
	It is based upon this that I (very possibly incorrectly) assumed
that his speaker was at such a low volume, that he couldn't hear it.

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