Altoids Amp

Step 4 Moment of truth #2

If it worked, hurray, if not, check your wiring, maybe switch the wiring of the input jack. So if it is working, you have another job to do, turn everything off, find the motor assembly, cut the wires (in the middle, incase you need to splice them back together) going from the chip to the motor, turn everything back on and if you still get sound, pat yourself on the back. Now get back to work. If it didn't work, then your amplifier is probably dependant on the motor wires, this means that you will have to either-

a.Figure out a way to bypass it on your own, cause I sure don't know

or

b.Just leave them on and mount the thing in somthing bigger than an altoids can

either way, if it doesn't work without the motor, the rest of this instructable can't do much for you. Sorry. You're on your own. Good luck in your venture into the unknown. You
will be in my prayers. You are a brave explorer in uncharted territory.

Comments

[Charger_06]

you can just connect the motor wires together to by pass it. Thats just like a closed circuit.

[evilmadcow]

I agree.

[Jesus10555]

I havent started this project yet, but I just wanted to throw this out there. If after you disconnect the motor and it doesnt work, you said find a way to bypass it, I just wanted to mention so it might help some. That you could probably hook up an Led (which would look cool too) and that should work, as it will complete the circuit that is required. (and an Led is smaller than a motor {I dont know how big a cassette motor is, so ... I might be wrong about the Led being smaller} but either way, you can put the Led on the outside of the can

[magganrchy]

That would work, or you could just cut real close to the motor on each wire, then attach the wires (there should be enough slack for that) I'll probably add an LED just for fun though

[papadekaitlyn]

Do note that if you were to wire in an LED that you have to also add a resistor in series with it to keep the LED from frying out. Also, it would probably be better to add a resistor between the two motor wires if a bypass were required instead of tying them together. Check the resistance of the motor by touching each of the motor leads with the lead of a muti-meter (or an ohmmeter if you're fancy) and choose a resistor to match. That could prevent chip failure from voltage overload later on. Of course I am an amateur, so by all means take my comments lightly... :D (If you want fried LEDs or silicon anyways ;)