Posted 7 years ago
Corrinegayle
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I would like to check this out to see if the 15in speaker works but I don't understand the plug or is it an amp.? How do I test this to make sure the speaker works. I guess is my question I'm baffled. Any information at this point would be great I don't know whether to finish the woods or leave it as is, don't even know how to look it up what is it called!! thanks
It is definitely a speaker for *something*, perhaps an old electric organ or musical instrument of some sort, or maybe a PA system. The numbers around the actual speaker rim should be able to identify the manufacturer and date of that component, at least to those (not myself) who are more familiar with vintage audio equipment, but might not identify who actually built the cabinet or for what purpose.
To test the speaker itself, it looks like you'd likely need to remove either the black or red wire from the screw terminals, then check across them both with an ohmmeter or continuity tester. After which, if a reading is indicated, you could probably try hooking up that white wire you added (?) to an audio source to see if anything made noise, but experiment with something cheap first (garage boombox, not the living room surround-sound system) as a 15" driver looking like that can probably eat some power... ;-)