Conn 830 Deluxe Organ speakers

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I have jusp purchased a Conn 830 Delux for my church, but have no idea how to hook up the speaker pipes. I have four 145 units and two 146 units the other speaker cabinet hooks up via a 10 pin plug, but what or how on earth do the others connect up????


Thank you for your kind assistance,


Worried in Dallas.

[twnelson]

Re: Conn 830 Deluxe Organ speakers

If you look closely inside the speaker cabinet (a model 255, I believe), you'll find a barrier terminal strip with labels as to which channels are on the respective terminal pairs. Typically, the pedal and flutes are handled by the 255 (which has the 15" speaker and the Leslie), whereas the diapason/string and reed channels are fed to the pipe speaker units via plain old speaker wire connected to the appropriate points on the terminal strip.

In what combinations you connect the pipe speakers is pretty much up to taste, as the larger pipes tend to favor the lower end and the smaller pipes the upper. However, don't connect more that two in parallel to any one channel since the amp isn't designed to drive anything less that 4 ohms.

[dstory]

Re: Conn 830 Deluxe Organ speakers

The other responders suggestion may be more up to date. Its been years since I have worked with the Conn utility speaker cabinet. What I recall is the large cabinet which is either a 255 or 256 is the "power" unit. It had a 3 channel amp to drive the Pedal and Flute voices (in the main unit) and drive two auxillary channels for additional plug in cabinets or pipe speakers. One was to handle the Main voices (Diapason, String, etc.) and the other to handle the Reed type voices, Oboe, Trumpet, etc. As I recall the plug for each of these auxillary units were round, 4 prong plugs, but apparently two of the 4 were superfulous as all the cable carried to the aux speaker cabinets was just speaker signal. There may have been as suggested by the other writer a old fashioned screw terminal strip to run the signal to the pipe speakers. There should be at least 3 knobs inside the power speaker cabinet to adjust the volume of each channel. The pipe speaker units, if they are the full size bases (about 36" long) each contain 4 - 6x9 speakers to power the pipes. The "mini-pipe" sets only had 2 - 6x9s. Judging from the number of pipe speaker units you got and their size I suspect the original owner had the amp for the Main channel driving one model 146 and two model 145s, and the Reed amp doing likewise. Contact me direct at "[email protected]" if you have further questions. Good luck. Don S.

[Guest]

Re: Conn 830 Deluxe Organ speakers

Thank you for your valued information, Don. I have four knobs inside my speaker cabinet and seem to have figured out what they do. I am having trouble with the Trumpet on Middle C, sounds sometimes but quite often not. What do you sugest to clean the contacts with? There is a notice on each manual not to spray contact cleaner on them.

Blessings,
Fr. Paul.

[Guest]

Re: Conn 830 Deluxe Organ speakers

Thank you for the information. If I put two 145's in parallel and one 146 in series will this bring the resistance back to 8 ohms?

Blessings,
Fr. Paul.