Sparkomatic was the brand name of car audio equipment that was a division of Altec Lansing Professional which has since become Altec Lansing Technologies. The company now supplies speakers to computer companies like Dell, Compaq, Gateway and Hewlett-Packard. One product sold by Sparkomatic from the late 1970's through much of the 1980s was its amplifier and equalizer combination unit. The unit was typically mounted on the center hump below the stereo. Installation of the Sparkomatic is a straightforward procedure that is used to install other brand amp-equalizer units.
Instructions
1. Open the hood of the vehicle the equalizer-amplifier is being installed in and remove the negative battery cable with the socket set.
2. Set the amplifier-equalizer in the position where it will be mounted.
3. Remove the knobs on the existing stereo and use a pair of pliers to remove the stereo from the dash board. The procedure for removing the car stereo will vary slightly with different vehicles and types of stereos.
4. Plug in the equalizer patch cables running from the back of the equalizer-amplifier into the ports on the back of the stereo.
5. Run the speaker patch cables from the equalizer to the speakers following the same route the stereo cables were ran.
6. Place the car stereo back into its dash port and tighten it down.
7. Run the power cable from the equalizer-amplifier to the battery, using the same path used for the stereo power cable. Mount the power cable's O-ring between the negative battery cable and the battery post.
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