Retro Wireless Speakers from Ikea Salad Bowls

Step 4 Soldering The Battery Holder

For this part of the process you will need:

- 2 8AA Battery Holders
- A Box of 9V-Clips (to connect to your battery holder, see picture) 
- Soldering Iron with a small to medium tip
- Solder
- Electrical Tape (or heat-shrink tubing)

*If you don't have soldering equipment but know someone who does get them to do it for you.  It will seriously take them a few minutes to finish.

Now, it's time to solder our battery holder to our power supply.  

The Rocketfish Speakers call for 8 C batteries for each speaker. (I know!  That's a lot of batteries!  If it's any consolation my speakers are still running off the original batteries I put in there.)  

When I put this project together I had to post it on my blog the next morning.  My initial thought was that I would somehow cut out the battery compartment from the original housing and use it in my salad bowls.  I quickly realized that this wasn't going to work.  As serendipity would have it I DID have two 8AA Battery holders left-over from a previous project.  I still think if you went to your local electronics shop and picked up an 8C-Battery Holder it might fit inside the bowl and would last some time longer than the AA's.

Okay, now the step.  Take your 9V battery clip and your leftover power supply that you saved from the speaker and solder the black wires together and the red wires together.

(see pics below)

There.  Easy.  Now just tape it up with some electrical tape and your done.