I am having trouble searching for a switch on Digikey. I'm not sure what parameters to set in the filtering boxes. I am open to other retailers, I was looking on digikey because I'm familiar with them. I've been searching google and eBay and digikey for ~1.5hr and I've come up empty. I'm pretty bad at searching for stuff so I decided to post here because I figured someone on here would know right away the proper terms for me to use when searching to have results related to what I'm describing.
Here is what I need the switch to do:
Switch 4 speakers (8 wires) between being powered by my car's radio and being powered by an alpine audio amplifier.
I currently have my amplifier's RCA inputs going to a 3.5mm cable that I plug into my iphone. The alpine amplifiers have inputs designed for the speaker outputs of a car's stock amplifier, but I'm trying to move away from using this input because it's very finicky. My gain dials are set below nominal because the amps have more power than I need, but the gain seems to only affect the RCA inputs, and the gain of the input designed to take another amplifier's output doesn't seem to be adjustable, but it seems to change if I plug my iPhone into the amplifier's RCA inputs but do not play any music through it. So, that input seems a little unpredictable/unstable/weird, and I want to set it up differently.
I am hoping to find a switch that rotates with two positions and functions like a single 2-position 3-pin switch, but basically with 8 of those switches inside of it. I'd connect the speakers to the center pin, the amplifier to one pin, and the car's radio outputs to the other pin (that x8 basically).
The speakers are 4-ohm and can handle 100W. I'd like the switch to be able to handle the same power levels. I'm not exactly sure what voltage it needs to handle but I think it would need to handle 5A AC through each pin.
Thanks in advance!
Here is what I need the switch to do:
Switch 4 speakers (8 wires) between being powered by my car's radio and being powered by an alpine audio amplifier.
I currently have my amplifier's RCA inputs going to a 3.5mm cable that I plug into my iphone. The alpine amplifiers have inputs designed for the speaker outputs of a car's stock amplifier, but I'm trying to move away from using this input because it's very finicky. My gain dials are set below nominal because the amps have more power than I need, but the gain seems to only affect the RCA inputs, and the gain of the input designed to take another amplifier's output doesn't seem to be adjustable, but it seems to change if I plug my iPhone into the amplifier's RCA inputs but do not play any music through it. So, that input seems a little unpredictable/unstable/weird, and I want to set it up differently.
I am hoping to find a switch that rotates with two positions and functions like a single 2-position 3-pin switch, but basically with 8 of those switches inside of it. I'd connect the speakers to the center pin, the amplifier to one pin, and the car's radio outputs to the other pin (that x8 basically).
The speakers are 4-ohm and can handle 100W. I'd like the switch to be able to handle the same power levels. I'm not exactly sure what voltage it needs to handle but I think it would need to handle 5A AC through each pin.
Thanks in advance!
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