Autocom Noise.....

[Fanum]

I set off to Vern's this morning with my new Ultimate Ear monitor plugs (very nice......top quality music at top speed at last woohoo!!!!! ) and with the whole Autocom set-up wired in......the Talkie-walkie and autocom itself are in the top of my tank bag, the Minidisc and phone in the map pocket on top of the bag and the power is taken from a foot behind the fuse box from the rear light feed and it all works fine with the engine not running...but as soon as I started the bike, the whine, ticking and interference was so bad it was unuseable.

I could use a pp9 battery I suppose but that way i'd lose the PTT button and chew batteries on long trips.......

Anyone got any ideas where to take a 'clean' supply from??? (there's nothing left accessable in the fuse box 'cos of all the relays etc for my tarmac melting eqiuipment )

I'm limited in time now before LAnd's end or I'd pop up to see the chaps at autocom themselves...and this is the place they recomended taking the supply from.


Cheers

 

[Fanum]

Ooops...just found MArk Rodger's identical thread for same prob....sorry....

Were you able to sort it Mark??

 

[BlackBetty]

I could very well be wrong here as I took pot luck in setting mine up. However I have no noise at all so it is worth a try. On my GSA, I removed the tank and took the green wire from the ignition switch for +ve and used the negative terminal on the battery direct.

 

[Mucky Helmet]

I've used the same feed & grounding as Black Betty and everything sounds clear.

 

[Fanum]

Thanks for that...I'll have to give it a try...it's uneusable as it is.

Cheers

 

[Fanum]

Waheeeey!!!!

It stopped raining so i went out, pulled evrything apart and started from scratch.....

The critical bit that i missed first time round was a short lead ending in a rubber coated box thingy about 3/4 inches thick and three inches long, with two 3.5 mm sockets on the end....this I now know to be the 'autocom gps lead' rather than what i thought was, which is in fact just the lead from the GPS to the autocom.

With me so far??

Good.

Then I'll carry on.

(My correct autocom lead has the two 3.5 mil sockets BTW 'cos it's one for combining the phone signal and the gps signal.)

Without that bit in, all i got from Betty was a big blast of white noise....with it in, i get her nice dulcet tones caressing my eardrums and asking me do do naughty things to her.

Waddya mean yours only tells you which way to go...didn't you get the SPIII 'special' version??

All I've got to do now is spend hours trying to get the levels set right.....but talking to yourself into a mic and trying to judge the volume of the sound coming out of the pillion 'phones is a) silly , b) bloody difficult.

(it's the only way of getting a sensible conversation though heheh)

Oh, and Ta Andy.......I didn't know that I could turn Betty down by holding the volume key to get the volume enu.......I'd got round that by putting the volume control for the ultimate earplugs inline before the autocom

What??? RTFM??? DON'T BE SILLY!!!!!!

PS has anyone seen my 2.5mil stero to 3.5 mil stereo 'phone lead BTW??
I'm sure its around here somewhere but I can't find the bastard.....looks like the fairies have been in again

Sod it, there won't be any phone reception down there anyway........