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Fearful 12/6/1 cubes are built

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Ok. Yours will not be as complicated as the picture Slyjoe sent. That ads a switch for the mid range Lpad. It took me a while to see that they used the input jack dish for input speakons, the Lpad switch, and the horn attenuator. That's why there's so much going on up in that corner. Pretty slick! That's a great picture to use as a guide.

Looks like the +&- input on each circuit board are clearly marked on your gear. In the end, there will be + &- wires coming off each stage of the crossover and going to a driver. ( the wires to the horn will make a detour to the attenuator.)

In your box of gear, I don't see an input dish, or the input speakons, or a terminal strip. Not a big deal, you can fab up an input plate, out of scrap plywood, and mount your speakons. The horn attenuator can go anywhere you like, just make it easy to get to.

You want your input jacks to be recessed. I've used a hole saw to make a 3" hole, rounded over the edges with the router, then glued my scrap ply with the speakons mounted to the inside of the cab. You could expand on that to recess the horn control as well, or make another "dish".

You might also try to fit your three boards on the port shelf, and come up with a terminal strip.

I'll have to get into an old pc and look for some pictures. I'll check back in the morning.

Are you planning to solder or use crimp connectors?

I try to get the whole thing wired up and mounted on one piece of plywood that fits on the port shelf. Then I screw it securely to the shelf and make the last connections.
 
1+ from the speakon jack to IN + on all three boards. 1- from the speakon jack to all three boards. I run one wire from the speakon to a board, then put 2 wires in the crimp connector to jumper to the next board.
W+ and W- to their respective drivers. The big iron coil board is for the woofer, the round coil for the midrange. The tweeter board has t+ which goes the to lpad. There is only one - post on the lpad, so you need to put two wires in the crimp, one from the speakon, the other goes to the lpad. I can never remember which is which on the lpad, but there's a diagram in the box with it.

No switch in this circuit.
 
I think I must be looking in the wrong place on fearful site becuase I can't find a lot of crossover stuff. I'll keep looking probably find it and feel stupid.
I ordered some 6 way terminal strips to ease wiring. The closer I can keep it to that diagram i think I'll be better off.
Thanks everyone for your help!
 
Ok nice blizzard today!

Finished the routing of cabs. It looks ok but not great needs some sanding.
I went in with more PL to seal the insides of cabs as best as possible. The mid chamber is an issue as I can't get it there with calking gun. Well I can get most of it but the front by the baffle I can't reAch.
I ordered some custom color duratex as i want this cab to stand out. I want it to look custom.
Single malt I liked the idea of putting crossover stuff on a seperate piece of ply and then screwing in.
Here is a question. The circuit boards need to be slightly elevated off the board correct? That's why I have these plastic spacers?