hlewis12
07-22-2011, 09:49 AM
I have a 2002 22SSV I like everyone else struggled with the volume of the tower speakers. I did a search on here for the cheapest way to control them. Everything in my boat is powered by external amps. I have a 5 channel amp that powers the 4 in boat speakers and a sub. I also have another 2 channel amp that goes straight to the tower speakers.
I decided to try out the PAC LC1 volume controller. It was only like $14 on Amazon so I thought why not. The worst thing that can happen is I get lots of distortion from it and I'm out $14.
I got it in the mail and hooked it up. I thought to myself dang I should have bought one of these a long time ago. I wasn't exactly sure where I was going to mount it though. It does come with a dash mountable bracket but there really wasn't anywhere that I could mount it easily and have easy access to it while driving. So for about a month I've just had it zipped tied underneath my dash. Well this works for a trained professional boat driver that can pull someone up not hit any other boats and look under the dash to turn the tower speakers up (as my wife says) but its not for everyone.
So I was cleaning my boat up yesterday for the weekend and as I was sitting there looking at the dash thinking where could I mount this thing something popped in my head.
I thought those speedometer adjustment knobs are very similar in size to the PAC audio knob. Heck since the perfect pass is in there the one on the left doesn't even do anything. So I crawled up in under the dash and thought dang that will just pop out if I take the knob and screw off of the outside.
So I did.
Then I took the PAC LC1 apart and slid it in the speedo adjustments place. To my surprise it fit perfectly. Heck I was even able to use the nice aluminum knob in place of the plastic one that came with the PAC.
I know that a thread is worthless without pictures and of course I didn't take any last night when I did this but I'll definitely add them later this evening. I'm ordering another one to control the sub and I'm planning on using the right one to control this. I mean how often do you really need to adjust speedo in the boat when you have perfect pass.
Here is a picture of what I'm talking about. I got the pic from the manual. I also noticed that in 2002 only the 22SSV had these in the dash. I checked out the 2005 SSV and it didn't have them in the dash either but rather on the right side underneath the dash close to the throttle lever.
So maybe this wouldn't work for everyone.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-sw9JkYVmeqo/Til_CYdKsGI/AAAAAAAAB-U/DPYqRu8UNfU/s800/3CF75d01.jpg
I decided to try out the PAC LC1 volume controller. It was only like $14 on Amazon so I thought why not. The worst thing that can happen is I get lots of distortion from it and I'm out $14.
I got it in the mail and hooked it up. I thought to myself dang I should have bought one of these a long time ago. I wasn't exactly sure where I was going to mount it though. It does come with a dash mountable bracket but there really wasn't anywhere that I could mount it easily and have easy access to it while driving. So for about a month I've just had it zipped tied underneath my dash. Well this works for a trained professional boat driver that can pull someone up not hit any other boats and look under the dash to turn the tower speakers up (as my wife says) but its not for everyone.
So I was cleaning my boat up yesterday for the weekend and as I was sitting there looking at the dash thinking where could I mount this thing something popped in my head.
I thought those speedometer adjustment knobs are very similar in size to the PAC audio knob. Heck since the perfect pass is in there the one on the left doesn't even do anything. So I crawled up in under the dash and thought dang that will just pop out if I take the knob and screw off of the outside.
So I did.
Then I took the PAC LC1 apart and slid it in the speedo adjustments place. To my surprise it fit perfectly. Heck I was even able to use the nice aluminum knob in place of the plastic one that came with the PAC.
I know that a thread is worthless without pictures and of course I didn't take any last night when I did this but I'll definitely add them later this evening. I'm ordering another one to control the sub and I'm planning on using the right one to control this. I mean how often do you really need to adjust speedo in the boat when you have perfect pass.
Here is a picture of what I'm talking about. I got the pic from the manual. I also noticed that in 2002 only the 22SSV had these in the dash. I checked out the 2005 SSV and it didn't have them in the dash either but rather on the right side underneath the dash close to the throttle lever.
So maybe this wouldn't work for everyone.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-sw9JkYVmeqo/Til_CYdKsGI/AAAAAAAAB-U/DPYqRu8UNfU/s800/3CF75d01.jpg