[dbpaddler]

okay....sorry I didn't do a step by step with the splicing, but if you really need the step by step pictures on top of the text, then you really shouldn't be doing it.

So attached are three pics


1) Back of the control box showing the connector that goes from the box to the sub. This is the only connection to the sub you'll need if you connect the speakers directly to your receiver.

2) back of the subwoofer. Pretty boring. AC plug, control center plug, and the speaker inputs. You'd only need the speaker inputs if you plan on using the control box in its intended fashion.

3) The control box showing the speaker wires that would plug in the back of your receiver if you were going to use the control box in its intended fashion. You'll see the subwoofer RCA input connected to my sub cable. You'll also notice the 12v cable spliced to the AC adapter shown.

I decided to just cut the 1/8" plug off of the 12v cable. That revealed a white positive wire and a unsheathed negative wire. I cut the tip off of my AC adapter which revealed a red and black wire. I cut off some of the insulation of the color coded wires. I twisted together the white from the 12v cable to the red on the AC adapter and wrapped some electrical tape around it. I then took the bare wire from the 12v cable and wrapped it with the black wire from the AC adapter and then wrapped the whole area with electrical tape. Plugged it in and after a few seconds the sub fires up with a blue light on the front.

I think it's just much easier to splice into the 12v cable directly as it is really not that difficult of a task. If you choose to go the extension cord route, be sure to by a 1/8" MONO extension cable as a headphone cable with have the two black rings (left, right, ground) as opposed to the mono cable that just has the mono and ground that matches with the positive and negative of the 12v trigger.

Pics of the actual speakers and the break apart connectors will follow.

The box itself is just a very basic circuit board taking the input signals and channeling them into the control center cable that goes to the sub. If you were inclined to do so, you could open the box, undo the 12v solders and solder the AC adapter directly to the board. I could care less as no one is going to see the box. And I just might take some shrink tape to my spliced area to reinforce it, but I don't think I even need to.