So I just mounted some fog lights and an air compressor in the truck box, and next I want to put in the stock speakers from my '95 Taurus. I raft and camp quite a bit, and having speakers in the truck box sounded like a good idea...

anyway, I will get to my question...

I was wondrering if it is possible to run the speaker wire through a rocker switch. I mean, I know it's just electricity anyway, but are there quality issues with the switch, will it even work?

I want to put them on a switch so they aren't constantly playing and making funny noises from the truck box.

Also, I was planning on just splicing the wire from the rear speakers in the cab, but if you have a better suggestion I would love to hear it.

I figure since they are just the old stock speakers I won't need an amp to power them, will I?

Thanks guys.

Nothing wrong with splicing right into your current rear speakers, however, you are asking a lot of the amp that is powering your internal speakers now. (Whether it is intagral to your head unit or remotly located) You might find that you don't get much power (volume) out of either the rears or external speakers when you have them turned on.

If you plan on putting a switch on them (and there is no harm in doing that) you might want to wire it so the switch switches between the rears and the external speakers (i.e. only one set plays at a time. (Use an on/on switch)

If I were doing it, I would buy a small cheap amp and put that on the external speakers and then use my switch to control the remote turn on wire to the amp. A $50 amp (or less) that puts out ~50watts x 2 would do the trick.

Food for thought...

Switch wont really make a big difference.

The idea where only one or the other is a good idea, Id say taht would be the best idea too.

Might not want to even go 50 watts though. If they are stock and out of a ford, they will die in no time with that much power.

If you do just put a switch where if the ones in the box are on and the rear ones in the cab are too, might want to series wire the speakers together and not parallel wire them, otherwise your impedence is going to drop-and probably to too low of a level for your head unit to handle. If you wire them that way tho, your only going to get half your power, plus if its going to 2 speakers on each channel, halve that again. Not going to be the greatest, but better than risking the chance of a blown HU if you parallel wire them.

I think that should work quite nicely, the on/on switch is a great idea.

I don't think I would need an amp if I do it that way, I mean, the HU will still be powering 4 speakers, right?

Thanks for the help guys!