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Permalink Reply by JL on October 21, 2016 at 1:09am

The Switch is closed when unplugged, and open when plugged in, usually used as a headphone jack on an amp.

The hot wire for the speaker goes to the tip's lug, and then from the extra lug to the speaker itself, so that when you plug in your headphones it kills the speaker.

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Permalink Reply by Scavanged Sound (Pete) on October 25, 2016 at 12:17am

Correction....I just did this set up on my last build. You have to jumper the lower tip lug to the ground lug and then add the switch in line.

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Permalink Reply by Jon Leslie/Runaway Veal Music on October 25, 2016 at 3:21am

Pete,

What switch did you use?

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Permalink Reply by JL on October 25, 2016 at 5:48am

Pete, are you perhaps confusing a TipRingSleeve jack (stereo) with this TipSleeve-break (mono) jack ?

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Permalink Reply by Scavanged Sound (Pete) on October 25, 2016 at 10:48am

I use stereo Jacks. They seem to work ok as switch jacks...but know you have me thinking....are they affecting my volume control? Since I've been using the stereo 3 lug jacks my volume control has not been working properly. I was blaming it on shoddy potentiometers....but possibly because I'm using a stereo jack for a mono application it is hurting the volume control some how. I will have to investigate this. Thanks for making me think about it.

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Permalink Reply by JL on October 26, 2016 at 12:14am

hmm, that would depend on how its wired. normally a stereo jack is wired as a power switch by connecting the battery negative wire to the ring lug and the circuit card's power ground/negative to the sleeve lug with all the other grounds.

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Permalink Reply by Scavanged Sound (Pete) on October 25, 2016 at 5:18am

I'll send you a pic when I get home

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