I'll check the ground from the battery out. But, how do you "beef up" the
ground?
I don't get any noise thru the regular radio when I play it. Only when I
have the sat playing thru the fm modulator. Maybe I'll have to pull the
radio out and make sure that fm modulator is grounded correctly. If I
remember right, I used the same wire as the radio uses to ground the fm
modulator. I also tapped into the radio power line to power the sat decoder.
(black)
I got the inifinity sound system when I bought my truck, where the heck is
the amp?! I thought the radio was the the whole shabang in one unit.
Oh, my truck isn't PB, it's LB (lightning Blue) 8^P Looks much better with
all my chrome! 8^)
--
Phil Batson
'00 4x4 CC 4.7L
http://www.ogzr.org/vrman/vrtruck.jpg
"Bill Pitz" <dakota@billpitz.com> wrote in message
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>
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 16:48:49 -0400, pbatson68@yahoo.com ("VRMan")
> wrote:
> >I got the Sirius setup on my truck. Been pretty happy with it so far. I
may
> >invest in a regular in dash model in the future. Right now I have the
Jensen
> >handheld that uses an FM modulator. Jensen did an "ok" job of it. It
could
> >use a better handheld unit tho. Buttons don't always work when you press
> >them and the backlight on it is pretty weak.
> >
> >I have yet to find a filter for my electrical system that will filter out
> >the alternator whine. (Alternator is the heavy duty one that puts out 140
> >amps) Or am I off base and don't have to worry about that many amps?
>
> Whoa, you have electrical noise? Near as I can tell, we have almost
> the identical truck ('00 CC 4x4 4.7L ... Patriot Blue rocks!) and I
> haven't noticed any electrical noise at all. And that's with cranking
> up my aftermarket head unit and pumping that through the crappy stock
> infinity amp (soon to be gone).
>
> Sounds like you might have a bad ground somewhere -- that's where I'd
> check first. I've noticed that a lot of people have beefed up the
> chassis ground, which is something that I'll probably be looking into
> once I get my amp in in the next week or so.
>
> The only time I notice any electrical noise is when I connect my CB to
> the cigarette lighter and crank the RF gain all the way up and the
> squelch all the way down and listen to an empty channel.
>
> (I also have the HD package which includes the 137 amp alternator)
>
> -Bill
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