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Title: The Traveling Zaurus Companion
Post by: Omicron on October 09, 2004, 08:37:40 am

As many of you have probably already experienced, when taking the Z on an airplane, it is oftentimes hard to hear a good movie without noice cancelling headphones.  Another issue is that when traveling with a friend, you need a splitter to share the movie on the Z.l

Well, there is a great little item that solves both of these problems:

Volume Booster 100% boost per channel (3 outputs) (http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&product%5Fid=33-1109)
(out of stock online but your local radio shack should have them....mine did).

This item has it's own 2xAA batteries and seems to last a long time.  Each output (there are three get a 100% VOLUME BOOST).  

Another nice use of this is as an "attachment" to your Z case.  For example I have a couple of mini (1") speakers that I setup to use the volume booster.  But istead of hooking both speaker to a SINGLE headphone adaptor I hooked EACH speaker to it's OWN headphone adaptor (thereby losing true stereo, but I get both left and right out of each speaker).  The net effect is that instead of the two speakers getting a combined 100% boost, EACh SPEAKER gets it's own 100% boost, effectively boosting tthe output by 200%.  It does work (tried it both ways to make sure I was not imagining it).  

The booster is a little big, so not great for everywhere, but it sure beats having to try to hear a mvie from the single speaker buried behind the CF card in the Z

I have the wiring working and the case disassembled (PDAir case) and now I just need to solder insulate and re-sew the case to my liking.  Once complete I will post picure if anyone expresses interest.


3-Way Headphone Volume Booster
$21.99   Brand: RadioShack
Catalog #: 33-1109


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Title: The Traveling Zaurus Companion
Post by: V-Man on October 09, 2004, 10:37:02 pm

Cool, one more thing to add to my Christmas list.

Thanks
V-Man