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Old May 19th 18, 10:47 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
jfitch
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Default Becker AR 620x radio - seems a little quiet?

On Saturday, May 19, 2018 at 1:15:08 AM UTC-7, Tim Newport-Peace wrote:
At 21:23 18 May 2018, jfitch wrote:
I finally got my new radio wired, the audio seems a little quiet compared
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o the old Dittel 71. Same speaker, 4 ohm as spec'd. I remember the Dittel
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eing pretty loud, kept the volume knob set to the lower half of rotation..


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The Becker even at 100% is far from earsplitting, and maybe not loud
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at speed or with the engine running. Both the Becker and Dittel spec'd

at
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4W audio power into 4 ohms.

Has anybody experienced this?

At risk of asking the obvious, is you speaker wired across P1-1/P1-14 and
not the headset pins?

I the configuration:
Is speaker ticked in IN/OUT CFG1/2?
Is SPKR VOL SRC set to Primary?


'Is SPKR VOL SRC set to Primary?' Bingo! You, Sir, win the toaster oven. That parameter was set to "Both" and the moment I set it to "PRI" it practically blew me out of the cockpit. Now have the volume set at 25% which is about as loud as the Dittel was. Intuitively it seems like Both should have worked the same but practically, it doesn't.