Stan,
Having dissected a couple of those headphone jacks, I can say that there
is a little plastic lever arm inside that operates the switch to close
the contacts that are wired in series with the speaker - that little
plastic arm is what breaks (at least in the ones I have examined) -
nothing electrical at all, just mechanical failure.
As with all plastic mechanical failure, a lot depends on the age, amount
of use, as well as the environment where the plastic lives - I can
imagine that it would fail more often in areas of high ozone
concentrations and higher levels of atmospheric acid (acid rain
'fallout'). I do not know the plastic type used in this jack, but I do
know that it fails on occasion - and some folks seem to experience
multiple failures - maybe it is the environment, but that is just a
guess on my part, no research is to be implied.
Replace the headphone jack and all will be well again.
73,
Don W3FPR
Stan Rife wrote:
I plugged in my headset and used it the other day. When I unplugged
it I had no audio from the external speaker jack, which is what I am using
with an external speaker. Even when I unplugged the external speaker I still
have no audio. The only way I can get audio now is the plug something in to
the headset jack.
What happens to these headset jacks? Is there a contact breaking off
in there? It was never intermittent and always worked fine up until this
incident. I'll have to replace it I am sure, I am just curious because I
know several people have had trouble with this jack. It seems the life span
on them is only a couple of years or so, at least for those of us that have
the problem.
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