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Philco 20A - Electronic Restoration Questions
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I thought about a little upgrade for the model 20 and found a spot to attach a female audio jack with future plans to drill a hole into the rear of the chassis to mount the female AUX input. I soldered ground to ground and the left & right audio inputs together on the low side of capacitor #19.

Volume for the AUX input isn't controlled by the radio itself, but instead from the input device (my cell phone for example). What's nice is that when the AUX is unplugged the radio audio then returns to whatever it was tuned to. If the radio does cut in while the AUX is plugged in, then the radio volume can just be turned down.

I've been running AUX audio through the radio for several hours with no issue. Here's the circuit diagram with the left & right connection point (marked with a red arrow), some pics and a video. I was pretty excited that it worked, so there's a bit of giggling on the video...

[Video: https://youtu.be/57Ugih6a4DY]

[Image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/4r345m39ffuymn...t.gif?dl=1]

[Image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/j3ygbmuo6a9ez4...n.jpg?dl=1]

- Eric

Philco 20A
Zenith T825


Messages In This Thread
RE: Philco 20A - Old cap can caps - by morzh - 08-09-2017, 08:03 PM
Capacitors for Philco Model 20 - by MrGrnEgz - 08-09-2017, 11:12 PM
RE: Capacitors for Philco Model 20 - by MrGrnEgz - 08-10-2017, 09:50 AM
RE: Capacitors for Philco Model 20 - by MrGrnEgz - 08-10-2017, 02:46 PM
RE: Capacitors for Philco Model 20 - by MrGrnEgz - 08-10-2017, 03:27 PM
RE: Capacitors for Philco Model 20 - by MrGrnEgz - 08-11-2017, 05:26 AM
Model 20A Frequency Indicator - by MrGrnEgz - 08-11-2017, 05:38 AM
Model 20A Power Cord - by MrGrnEgz - 08-12-2017, 01:18 PM
RE: Model 20A Power Cord - by Radioroslyn - 08-12-2017, 01:28 PM
Model 20A Speaker Cone Repair - by MrGrnEgz - 08-13-2017, 09:41 PM
AUX audio input for model 20A - by MrGrnEgz - 08-13-2017, 10:54 PM
RE: Model 20A Speaker Cone Repair - by MrGrnEgz - 08-14-2017, 08:50 AM
RE: Model 20A Speaker Cone Repair - by morzh - 08-14-2017, 04:48 PM



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