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| 1125.1 | No joy with joystick | MAJORS::GAMI | Raj Gami X 6365 | Fri Jun 29 1990 11:49 | 12 |
| I would recomend that you do not use the Ford joystick at all, they are
usually very poor quality. If your goodmans has a built in
fader, then I suggest you use this and wire all 4 speakers directly
into the goodmans and bypass the joystick.
I had the same problem when fitting a unit into a cavalier. I initially
wired it up through the cars joystick. The quality was S**t. The unit
was of high quality but the joystick knackered the sound. I then
re-wired it bypassing the joystick, the change in sound quality was
amazing. Try it !
Raj
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| 1125.2 | original | WOTVAX::HARRISC | A man has to know his limitations | Fri Jun 29 1990 12:52 | 12 |
| Re .0
If you really want to use the joystick, the easiest way would be to
connect two of the four output wires from the Goodmans to where the old
Fords two outputs went (just disregard the other two). The rest has
already been done for you, I find this to be the most effective way.
By-passing the joystick will give better quality, but as it is only a
Goodmans and (i assume) origanal Ford speakers the difference will
be nothing to worry about.
..Craig
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| 1125.3 | | RDGENG::HAYWARD | Peter from REO F5, phone 830 3025 | Fri Jun 29 1990 13:41 | 7 |
| Thanks for the comments about the joystick. May-be I will bypass
it.
Craig, this Ford unit has only one feed from it (well, + and -).
Peter.
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| 1125.4 | How about this ? | PEKING::GERRYT | | Fri Jun 29 1990 13:48 | 14 |
| I've just put a radio/cassette unit into my VW Santana. The car came
with four speakers already wired to VW's own fader unit. The
radio/cassette is an old one (PYE), just made for two speakers.
When wiring the speakers, if I connected all 4 wires, ie. +ve and
-ve to both speaker leads going to the fader unit, one of the channels
was very quiet and 'toppy'.
Having played about with the wires (not having a wiring diagram
for the VW made this a necessity), I found that by leaving one of
the -ve leads unconnected on one channel, it actually fixed the problem.
Presumably I was creating an 'earth loop' by joining all 4 wires
previously ?
Tim
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| 1125.5 | I'll try that | ESSB::DOODY | 3 Cylinders Good- 4 Cylinders bad | Fri Jun 29 1990 15:59 | 18 |
| I too have Just purchased an Xr3i (2nd hand) The Stereo is a
radiomobile Which appears to be a reasonable unit (???) the previous
owner had the outputs (front & rear) from only one channel connected
to the joystick (==> no stereo ==> output transistors on other channel
possibly blown) happily The other channel was ok. so now at least I
have stereo. But the sound quality is absolutely awful: tinny from
the front speakers : Muffled from the rear: RAdio very bad, tape a
little better. I will try out bypassing the joystick.
I'm not about this unit Ford fits in order to use the rear heated
window as an aerial. I think a proper aerial would make a difference
BTW the only thing that does not work on the car is the heated rear
screen ( Fuse IS ok) - Something tells me there my be a relationship
somewhere......!!!!!
Brian.
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| 1125.6 | Not much joy? | DOOZER::JENKINS | Adrenalin is brown.. �K.Morrissey | Fri Jun 29 1990 16:07 | 11 |
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If the sound is as bad as you say, I'd go for a new set of speakers
and new unit before worrying about the joystick.
The hrw/aerial worked fine for me with a Blaupunkt. Certainly better
than my broken electric aerial which is going to be �50+ to replace
:-(
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| 1125.7 | | MAJORS::QUICK | Censored by ******* | Thu Apr 23 1992 13:36 | 11 |
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Does anyone have a wiring diagram for a Pioneer KEH 4080
radio-cassette? What I'm specifically interested in is the
speaker wiring; the unit runs 4 speakers, via only three
pairs of wires. The colours are grey, grey/red, grey/black,
green, green/red, green/black. I've assumed that there is
a common earth for each pair of speakers and wired it in;
all the speakers work but the stereo definition is awful
and some speakers sound "weedy"... any ideas, anyone?
JJ.
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| 1125.8 | | SHAWB2::HARRISC | Have YOU wiped properly? | Thu Apr 23 1992 14:20 | 4 |
| I've had a few Pioneers in the past and none of them had that wiring
setup! How old is the unit?
..Craig
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| 1125.9 | | AEOEN1::MATTHEWS | M&M Enterprises, the CATCH 22 | Thu Apr 23 1992 14:28 | 19 |
| I had the same problem with a Clarion system. The only solution
is to 'suck it and see'.
What I did was to adjust the system to isolate one speaker. Then
try the various combinations of wires until one speaker is working
well.
As an example, if you assume the grey wires are for the right
had set of speakers, you adjust the system to front right only,
and try the wires from the front right speaker across the three
possible combinations of the three grey wires. You'll probably
find that two of the combinations work well, and one doesn't.
With the speaker connected to one of the two working combinations,
adjust the system to back right only. If you have the correct
connection, the spund should go away.
Once you have worked out one of the speaker connections, the others
should become obvious ...
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| 1125.10 | Could be the one.. | PEKING::MCSHANEG | Deceptively Co-operative | Tue Jul 14 1992 00:44 | 11 |
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re 1
Poor/variable sound quality could we be due to a poor earth (happend
with mine). I have a Pioneer, sorry can't remember the model, but the
one you've mentioned sounds close. If you mail me I will let you borrow
the 'installation' sheet which has set-ups for 2/4 speaker usage for about
5 models in the range including wire colours...
Gary.
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