I just scored an original reverberator off E-Bay.
I would like to know the factory recommended mounting location in a 2 dr.hardtop.
I also need some kind of schematic as to how it's supposed to hook up to the radio and speakers.
I need an original dash mounted switch for it .
In the meantime can it be hooked up to toggle switches and / or reostats mounted in the glovebox?

 

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I remember reverbs but I never owned one.

 

I have a 66 setup I'm putting in my 67, which is the same in those areas. The factory reverb spot was in the trunk, on the passenger side, and hung off the seat bulkhead, to my knowledge. The reverb unit comes from and goes back to the radio electrically, so it can physically BE anywhere.

The switch is the interesting thing, and I'm going from memory here. As I recall, it is a triple pole, single throw switch, if I'm using those terms correctly, that does three things. The reverb switch interrupts the wiring from the radio to the rear speaker.

You have three wires going into the switch from the car, and three wires going from the switch to the reverb. Going into the switch, you have Wire A, 12V power, Wire B, rear speaker lead from the radio, and Wire C, the wire going to the rear speaker. Coming out of the switch going to the reverb, you have Wire D, power line to the reverb, Wire E, speaker signal out to the reverb, and Wire F, speaker signal back from the reverb.

When OFF, wire A connects to nothing, and wire B is connected to wire C, meaning that the reverb has no power, and the radio goes straight through the switch to the rear speaker.

When ON, wire A connects to Wire D, the reverb gets power (and it's grounded for the negative) and Wire B connects to Wire D (speaker signal goes from the radio to the reverb) and Wire C connects with Wire E (the processed signal goes from the reverb to the rear speaker.

It's a fairly complicated little switch. If you did a single toggle for the power, and then had a DPDT toggle, with the speaker signal going in the middle of one, and the rear speaker going in the middle of the other, and wired one set of poles together for OFF, and then connected the reverb in and out to the other set, I think that would work.

 

There was one in my 67. It was mounted in the trunk area, on the drivers side inner wheel well. I was not connected, the wiring was long but had been cut off up under the dash area, so i have no idea where it connected or how. Also there was no switch.

 

I have this in my 63 98 custom sport coupe, I'll get some pics to you tomorrow.
I don't have a spare switch but I think there is more then just an on off switch involved.
Steve

 

Ok this is a stock reverb switch and harness. The six connections are:

Brown wire with jumper: power, normally jumping off the radio.
Light green: Rear Speaker output coming from the radio
White with green: Wire going to the rear speaker.

Your normal car will have power going to the radio, and a wire coming off the radio going into the wire going back to the rear speaker. It is this connection you interrupt with a reverb.

The three in the harness:
Red: Power to the reverb
Dark green: Signal coming back from the reverb to the switch.
Black: Signal from the switch out to the reverb

The switch is an on/off switch that does three things, as I said above, but I'll list them briefly.

1. Turns power off and on to the reverb.
2. Connects the signal from the radio rear output to either the rear speaker, or the reverb's input
3. Connects the rear speaker either to radio rear output, or the reverb's output.

Essentially it "drops in" the reverb in between the radio and the rear speaker, and turns it on. This is so you could turn it on and off.

If you just want it to be always on, run a power wire to a switch for it, plug your rear radio output into it, and your rear speaker into it, and turn it on and off with the radio. There will be no way to not listen to it, though.

 

Thanks for the info Koda.
I think for now I can make do with a double pole double throw toggle switch hidden in the glovebox until I can find the proper switch.