SECTION 5 - EXTERNAL SPEAKER
The Parrot does not come with an external speaker. The Moto and Nokia units do. There are
places that sell external speakers for the parrot. www.installer.com
and
http://mobilecityonline.com/
both do. I had an old nokia speaker lying around, so I decided to
use that one. It does work, but has a different connector. Nokia uses a 3.5mm connector,
parrot uses an iso connector on the mute cable. (Nokia does not have a mute cable, the
speaker plugs directly into the brain box, but you can buy non-Nokia made mute cables to
work with the Nokia. I have one in another car. I only mention this here because if you have
a Nokia phone, the Nokia bluetooth works better with it than any other. I know from
experience. But the Nokia does not work very well with non-Nokia phones.) I am not sure
what the Moto uses.
I cut off the connector, exposed
the wires, and since I was doing
this, added an extension since the
cable was only 5 feet long. In
retrospect, I really did not need an
extension. I do not know how long
the cable is for parrot speakers. (If
you buy the parrot speaker, you
can obviously skip this step.)
For a connector, use the male iso
connector you cut off the power
cable (the male is the one with the
metal sockets, not the metal pins.)
Make sure you use the male, not
the female. You need to plug into
the female socket on the mute
cable, which is the speaker output.
(The male connector on the mute
cable is audio input.)
Splice or solder the wires as
shown. Cut off the rest of the wires
on the iso connector. Also, you will
have to cut off the clip on the top
of the connector, since it will not
line up with the slot on mute
cable’s female connector. Don’t
worry they still snap firmly together
even without the clip.
