I have my outdoor speakers set up through the zone 2 of my receiver. The wires come from zone 2 of receiver into the volume control then to speakers mounted outside under eve of house.
Everything will work great for a while and then the volume control will burn up and you can smell the burning and the board is fried on the volume control
I have been using 100w volume controls anywhere from $50 to $60 ea. to a $15 one from monoprice, which is the last one that just burnt out.
My set up is :
(1) pair of Yamaha outdoor speakers NS-AW390w 6 ohm 130w max
Powered by Zone 2 of my Onkyo SR-607
This is the third time this problem has happened. I am looking to get another volume control now and I don't want this to happen again. I just need to know what I am doing wrong.
Can anyone suggest what type of volume control I need? And what I have been doing wrong
Thank you
Thank you
Your problem is that you have one pair of speakers. The volume control may say 100 watts, but you can not dissipate more than a few watts in the volume control.
You are setting the output too high from your receiver.
You need to set your receiver, so it is about the right level, and only slightly shave the power to your speakers at times.
You can't use a control like this to control a pair of speakers, with a lot of power coming from the zone 2.
It would be best not to use a volume control at all and set it at the receiver.
Your ideal solution if you want high power, is to use line level to a power amp, near the speakers, that has a volume control.
Volume controls in speaker leads are for low level background listening only.
