Escondido, CA
How would you hook up external sub woofer? Do you need cross over or can you just connect to speaker in cabinet .
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You need to have an external powered subwoofer. Such as one for a home theatre. They typically have high level inputs. Simply unplug the larger speaker in the bottom of the cabinet and run a speaker lead from that same wire out of the cabinet to a powered sub. plug it in and whalla! makes a world of difference.
Vaughan, ON
I hooked an external powered sub to 2 pins (TZ and CV) recently. Just ran a wire from the bottom speaker in the pin cabinet out to the input terminals in the sub.
Many subs have 2 or more inputs and there is no reason you can't hook 2 machines to one sub. It will work just fine, as you are only driving the low frequencies.
Also important to mention, when initially I unhooked the speaker in the cabinet and jumpered the wires to the sub, all the speakers in the pinball machine didn't work. They must be wired in series. I just reattached the wires to the cab speaker and soldered the output wires to those terminals and ran them out to the sub. Worked like a charm.
Where do you feed the speaker wire through the bottom of the cabinet? Do you remove the grate under the stock sub speaker in the bottom of the cabinet?
I've only done it on Tron so I just lifted one of the metal vent shields in the upper part of cabinet.
Thanks, that's what I'm going to do is run 2 pins off this powered sub. Whirlwind and fish tales . FYI bought the sub at Costco for 99.00 . Seems like a pretty good deal
Quoted from coasterguy:I've only done it on Tron so I just lifted one of the metal vent shields in the upper part of cabinet.
Can you take a pic of this please?
Good point
I did it on a CV and TZ. Again, it appears they must be wiring the speakers in series.
That may not be the case for a Stern or even other B/W games, and you should check the schematic or physically inspect the wiring path if you can. Also, it doesnt draw a lot of power to send a signal to a powered subwoofer but I dont want to cause you to damage your machine.
Id try disconnecting the bottom speaker and see if jumpering works first then go from there.
Yes your replacing the subwoofer in the cabinet and using an external sub. Your not adding your replacing 
Tried hooking this external sub to speaker wire on bottom of whirlwind . No sound at all In sub .Matter in fact noticed sound level decrease in back box . Only tried for 10 sec . Didnt want to blow amp . Something wrong anyone know ?
If you are unsure and don't want to damage your system, get a hi/low converter and just split into the speaker wire. They're super cheap, and you don't have to break the circuit. It'll convert the speaker signal to the same type of signal you'd get out of your home theatre receiver.
No worries.
Quoted from Fishmugger:Tried hooking this external sub to speaker wire on bottom of Whirlwind . No sound at all In sub .Matter in fact noticed sound level decrease in back box . Only tried for 10 sec . Didnt want to blow amp . Something wrong anyone know ?
Can you give us a make and model of the sub?
Also some pics of the connections panel?
2 months later
Quoted from Allibaster:get a hi/low converter and just split into the speaker wire.
This ??
http://www.amazon.com/PAC-SNI-35-Adjustable-2-Channel-Converter/dp/B001EAWS3W/ref=sr_1_2
For the price, is there anything better then this 10" sub ??
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002KVQBA/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1
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