cd player input used for mp3?

[WOODY]

does anyone know if it is possible to use the input wire from the trunk cd player, and connect a wire back to the passenger area with a stereo mini plug to use with portable mp3 players? seems to me that if the correct wires were isolated, it might be relatively simple, and give a better connection than an fm frequency transmitter to get the signal to the head unit.
thoughts anyone?

 

[Ojas]

does anyone know if it is possible to use the input wire from the trunk cd player, and connect a wire back to the passenger area with a stereo mini plug to use with portable mp3 players?

There are pins for L, R, signal ground on this line. Unfortunately, it's not as simple as connecting the input signal of your AUX device (mp3 player) to these pins. The head unit uses the other pin(s) (Bus?) to detect the presence of the CD changer to allow you to switch to that input. If you only connect the L, R, and signal ground pins, you won't be able to switch to the CD input.

A hack would be to leave your CD changer in place, but switch the L&R signal through a DPDT switch (CD-changer on one side, AUX on the other) and tie the signal grounds together. One problem would be your CD changer will always be running, even when you are switched to the AUX input.

Here's a recent thread: http://www.nsxprime.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17104

 

[WOODY]

may have answered my own question. i had not seen this one before

http://www.rcainput.com/Merchant2/m...ode=RCAI&Product_Code=HON-AUX&Category_Code=H

 

[Ojas]

i had not seen this one before

I'm about 99% sure that's not what the unit actually looks like (as the disclaimers imply).

I think the actual product is PIE HON-AUX (they have the same product code and applications), which was mentioned in the thread I posted above. If this is the same part, mick had some feedback you might want to check out.