Well, the modulator doesn't have much reach and there isn't much room around
the radio area to jam it in. I'll have to check it out again. Maybe I can
just shield it from the rest of the wiring.
I'll have to dig that amp out and look at it. Obviously, I'm not sure what
kind of inputs etc it has, but maybe I'll luck out and will be able to hook
the sat decoder to the amp rather than thru the modulator. That would
probably fix everything! :)
When I take a look at it, maybe I can get an idea of the space available and
swap it for a better model that has additional inputs and more power. Kind
of scares me that it is in an enclosed space like that tho. I thought amps
had to have air circulation to stay cool.
Thanks so much for the info Bill! Really appreciate it!
--
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 Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:09:16 -0400, pbatson68@yahoo.com ("VRMan")
> wrote:
> >I'll check the ground from the battery out. But, how do you "beef up" the
> >ground?
>
> Replace the stock ground wires with larger ones. (i.e. 8 awg -> 4
> awg, or 4 awg -> 0 awg)
>
> >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)
>
> That should be the ground strap, which should be sufficient... But
> since you just hear the noise through the FM modulator, I would say
> that the FM modulator is either not grounded well enough, or it's just
> inferior quality... so it doesn't matter how much you try to filter
> the input power, it's still going to pick up the ambient electrical
> noise from the truck.
>
> You might also want to pull the whole thing out of the dash and try to
> keep the FM modulator out of the dash and as far away as possible and
> then try to turn it on. The noise will probably go away (at least
> partially) if it's just picking up interference.
>
> >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.
>
> Nope. The infinity amp is behind the passenger's side kick panel. If
> I remember correctly, you have to pull up the passenger's side door
> sill/trim (the long, narrow gray piece that covers most of the length
> of the door opening and holds the carpet down).. To pull that up,
> pull up gently. It's attached by three clips. Once you get that
> piece off, you can pull off the plastic piece (again, gently, slowly)
> in front of it that covers the right side area under the glove box
> (aka the kick panel). The amp is right in there -- you can't miss it.
> Black box, two wiring harnesses running int oit.
>
> >Oh, my truck isn't PB, it's LB (lightning Blue) 8^P Looks much better
with
> >all my chrome! 8^)
>
> Well :-P then. Still looks nice, though.
>
> -Bill
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