gsbiker
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I've decided to ride to Autocom and let them take a look. Will cost me about £70 in fuel I recon but probably better in the long run.
Autocom Pro 300 PROBLEMS
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Let us know how you get on, so that your experiences can be passed on to the next needy person.
John
It's been a journey of discovery so far, so a bunch of miles further will not make a heap of difference.
Autocom will sort you out, for sure.
Let us know what the official diagnosis and final cure is, please.
gsbiker
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Well I rode up to see GSrich at autocom who very kindly went through everything. He changed the two loom leads (riders & pillions) as it was thought the leads might have a fault and I bought a longer audio lead as mine was stretched to the max. My ear phones was also back to front and my mic was not quite in the right position apparently. I also bought the bluetooth dongle and Rich set it up for me. Upon riding home I noticed everything louder. GPS playback via bluetooth is not as clear but I will live with that for the convenience of being able to call with my helmet on. Only thing is that I has just bought the Autocom to GPS audio lead for about £30 which is now redundant because of the bluetooth as no one mentioned its either/or but not both!! The ride back proved successful as I listened to music and GPS bings, bongs and directions all clearly without any music drop off as before, probably a bit too loud now but as yet I've not test with ear plugs in. The setup now seems like a different unit on my bike and I noticed none of the controls have been altered so GSrich must has made some changes to the circuit board. All in all I'm happier with a working unit. Once again many thanks to GSrich 
Excellent.
Good to hear that there was nothing wrong with the Autocom unit itself, just the peripherals.
Good to hear that there was nothing wrong with the Autocom unit itself, just the peripherals.
ianm00
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Well I rode up to see GSrich at autocom who very kindly went through everything. He changed the two loom leads (riders & pillions) as it was thought the leads might have a fault and I bought a longer audio lead as mine was stretched to the max. My ear phones was also back to front and my mic was not quite in the right position apparently. I also bought the bluetooth dongle and Rich set it up for me. Upon riding home I noticed everything louder. GPS playback via bluetooth is not as clear but I will live with that for the convenience of being able to call with my helmet on. Only thing is that I has just bought the Autocom to GPS audio lead for about £30 which is now redundant because of the bluetooth as no one mentioned its either/or but not both!! The ride back proved successful as I listened to music and GPS bings, bongs and directions all clearly without any music drop off as before, probably a bit too loud now but as yet I've not test with ear plugs in. The setup now seems like a different unit on my bike and I noticed none of the controls have been altered so GSrich must has made some changes to the circuit board. All in all I'm happier with a working unit. Once again many thanks to GSrich
What GPS are you using? I have zumo and use bluetooth module for communication from zumo to phone and zumo to autocom. In zumo settings I set it for phone only via bluetooth. I then also have the audio lead connected from zumo to autocom. Mp3 and navigation goes via the lead and is louder and better quality than the phone via bluetooth.
Ian
gsbiker
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I have the Navigator 3, all sound is routed by lead OR bluetooth - you can't have both unfortunately
Well I rode up to see GSrich at autocom who very kindly went through everything. He changed the two loom leads (riders & pillions) as it was thought the leads might have a fault and I bought a longer audio lead as mine was stretched to the max. My ear phones was also back to front and my mic was not quite in the right position apparently. I also bought the bluetooth dongle and Rich set it up for me. Upon riding home I noticed everything louder. GPS playback via bluetooth is not as clear but I will live with that for the convenience of being able to call with my helmet on. Only thing is that I has just bought the Autocom to GPS audio lead for about £30 which is now redundant because of the bluetooth as no one mentioned its either/or but not both!! The ride back proved successful as I listened to music and GPS bings, bongs and directions all clearly without any music drop off as before, probably a bit too loud now but as yet I've not test with ear plugs in. The setup now seems like a different unit on my bike and I noticed none of the controls have been altered so GSrich must has made some changes to the circuit board. All in all I'm happier with a working unit. Once again many thanks to GSrich
To quote myself,
If you intend to connect a mobile phone to the NavIII, I would have said to buy bluetooth dongle Autocom part 1273 if your Aux 1 port is powered (denoted by tiny blue sticker) or part 1276 if it is not powered.
If you don't want to connect a phone, but just want GPS instructions then GS Rich will advise what leads you need - a 1282 + 1294, I believe.
The extra music lead referred to by others is for GPS' like the Zumo and 2820 that do music or even if you were ever to consider bike-powering an iPod.
GSrich
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Im glad all is well, just one majhor note though nothing was altered on your PCB by the way, I only swapped your leads over.
Did you get the flashing S sorted out BTW?
Rich
Did you get the flashing S sorted out BTW?
Rich
Im glad all is well, just one majhor note though nothing was altered on your PCB by the way, I only swapped your leads over.
Did you get the flashing S sorted out BTW?
Rich
Good to know that the Autocom box itself is as reliable as ever.
The flashing S is a warning about the ASC control 'Off road mode'........ How fast it is flashing dictates the cause of the warning. Has the Autocom workshop moved into a field?
GSrich
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hahaha well its how we appear on all of the GPS's even though the estate has been here for ages
Rich
Rich
gsbiker
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As Wapping said, the flashing S was the ASC turned off which was weird and you know I mentioned my fuel gauge had dropped by half well I ended up getting about £310-320 miles out of the tank so I think the electronics got confused somehow?
If nothing was changed on the PCB well whatever you did has made a BIG difference in a number of ways.
cheers
Paul
If nothing was changed on the PCB well whatever you did has made a BIG difference in a number of ways.
cheers
Paul
gsbiker
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O yeah I forgot to mention it was all my fault! 
striker
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Just to lead on from this. Any ideas on loss of volume at speed. 60 - 70. Had the wife on the back for 100 miles or so and found it hard to hear her at speed. I know that might be a good idea but I might need to hear her the odd time. Volume is fully up and the mike is directly in front of and close to the mouth.( The mouth not being my wifes name)
gsbiker
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What about when you reach 70 - 80?
striker
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Its the same problem at any speed over 60.
gsbiker
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Maybe GSrich could add something here cause I'm not qualified or have a clue to be honest!
Just to say that with the improvements GSrich has made I find that wearing ear plugs is next to useless if you want to use the intercoms side of it. If you're just playing music you have to have the Autocom and iPod up to max. The Autocom MUST have an input volume sensor or something because when I listen to music at or near full volume with ear plugs to get reasonable volume the playback volume still drops randomly. This happened yesterday whilst wearing earplugs. I then removed them and lowered the iPod volume and that resolve the problem - but this is poor design I feel - these multitech helmets are quite noisy at speed (like many others in their class) so wearing ear plugs helps dampen the wind noise down. I've been wearing those yellow ear plugs!
Just to say that with the improvements GSrich has made I find that wearing ear plugs is next to useless if you want to use the intercoms side of it. If you're just playing music you have to have the Autocom and iPod up to max. The Autocom MUST have an input volume sensor or something because when I listen to music at or near full volume with ear plugs to get reasonable volume the playback volume still drops randomly. This happened yesterday whilst wearing earplugs. I then removed them and lowered the iPod volume and that resolve the problem - but this is poor design I feel - these multitech helmets are quite noisy at speed (like many others in their class) so wearing ear plugs helps dampen the wind noise down. I've been wearing those yellow ear plugs!
I think the acid test (or measure) is how many people who have managed to get their Autocom and sound (GPS, Ipod, phone, bike-to-bike, rider-to-pillion or whatever) to work together in perfect harmony with the standard speakers, assorted ear plugs and assorted helmets.
I don't think the colour of the ear plugs has much effect, though. So that's an easy thing to discount.
I don't think the colour of the ear plugs has much effect, though. So that's an easy thing to discount.
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