Starboard Bow Speaker Not Working

[Ribs77]

Hey all,

2021 AR195 here, pretty new to me. At first, I noticed that both of the starboard side speakers (bow and rear) weren't working. I researched a few threads here about the possible cause and took a look behind the helm to see if any wires were loose. Couldn't see anything visibly loose, but jangling the cluster of wires got the rear starboard speaker working again. But not the bow speaker.

Any recommendations of what to try next there? Thanks in advance!

 

[MilesPrower]

Unscrew the speaker from the trim piece and wiggle the 2-conductor connector. If that fixes it, you've got a spotty connection.

I recommend touching-up all electrical connections on your boat (including the speaker harness in the helm locker) with DeoxIT S100L. A tiny drop goes a long way, so a small 25 ml bottle that costs $40 (yikes!) will last a lifetime. I think it's cheap insurance.

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(I'm an audio engineer with multiple studios worth of audio gear, all of which need wiring... and I've wired countless electronic farkles on my boats, cars, motorcycles, etc... and I'm still on my original bottle of DeoxIT that I bought long before I was a boater.)

 

[Ribs77]

Unscrew the speaker from the trim piece and wiggle the 2-conductor connector. If that fixes it, you've got a spotty connection.

I recommend touching-up all electrical connections on your boat (including the speaker harness in the helm locker) with DeoxIT S100L. A tiny drop goes a long way, so a small 25 ml bottle that costs $40 (yikes!) will last a lifetime. I think it's cheap insurance.

Amazon.com

(I'm an audio engineer with multiple studios worth of audio gear, all of which need wiring... and I've wired countless electronic farkles on my boats, cars, motorcycles, etc... and I'm still on my original bottle of DeoxIT that I bought long before I was a boater.)

Thanks for this! Finally got a chance to go out and do this (it's been dumping rain), and one of the two wires was disconnected. Plugged it back in and the speaker works. ?

 

[Ribs77]

Minor update to this - the right rear speaker is working but seems noticeably quieter than the others. That was one of the ones that originally wasn't working at all. I'll take the faceplate off and see about the connection, but all of the connections behind the helm seemed normal. Anything else I should check if the connections seem OK?

 

[FSH 210 Sport]

You can also swap that problem speaker with a known good one and put the problem speaker where the good one was to see if the speaker itself is still good.