Thread: Remote faceplate with Alpines (interconect, wire, solder)

Originally Posted by justintime

I bought a new Alpine CDE-9845 CD player, which has a detachable faceplate. I am planning on wiring the connectors with a 3 foot CAT5 cable as others have done, because I don't have enough space for this in my dash. I wanted to know if anyone has tried this with similar Alpine units. I am posting photos of the male and female connectors as a reference.

The Male conector looks very easy to solder onto. Not too sure about the female. (no jokes on ths one please!)

I would really want to avoid soldering onto the PCBs, as I have seen some people do. Is it totally crazy to think that I can get away with soldering between these connectors?

FYI: this CD player is only $119 at Best buy on clearance, it does sound very well, and has some nice features like MP3/WMA playback -- best of all a mini jack connector on the back for AUX input (!).

Does anybody have any sources for this type of connector or know what they are called? i'd like to look into making a removable screen with one/some

Thks

Mark

I have successfully done it on my alpine unit. Do a search you should see the thread I put. Its relatively easy if you have the right equipment. You need a very very fine soldering tip. I would suggest buying 2 cat5or6 cables and use an extension inbetween to connect them. This way if you needed more length in the future , its very easy to extend , and you can still detach the faceplate from the headunit by disconnecting the extension, that is what I did. Hope that helps.

I have successfully done this on an alpine 9884 and maintained full functionality. I did this with two 2' cat5 wires cut in half with two couplers.

The faceplate side was relatively easy because it was the male adapter.

The trick with the female side which is on the cd player itself is to take the plate off the front. You will see a board screwed to the back of the plate. Remove this and you will see where the female connector is soldered to the board. Use these points to solder the new wire to your board then just drill a whole in the black plate to run the wires through.

Hints -
The trick on both ends is to
1) Get a little solder on the tip of your iron, then apply it to where you would like to solder.
2) Put a little solder on the wire you are attaching.
3) Press the wire up to where you put the solder from step 1, apply heat briefly and the two parts should be joined. If any needs pictures or better directions I can help.

pic please james

What part would you like pictures of?

Since my cup holders have liners in them I took out the liner and drilled a hole into the bottom to run the wires through. This is temporary till I find somewhere in my tiny a** car to put the face plate.


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32 Solder joints later and some hot glue to make sure wires dont touch. Good with soldering, no so much with the hot glue gun.


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It works!


p.s. I took the dash back apart because I decided to change something, as always, so I will post pictures of the female end as soon as I can

Good with a soldering iron, not so good with a hot glue gun. Soldered all of
the joints then hot glued them to make sure there were no bare wires.


Ran the wires through the cup holder since the cup holders have removable
liners. The car is very small so I have to think of a place to fit the faceplate.


Here it is working and in its temporary position.

P.s. I am re-doing the mounts for the screen because I wasnt satisfied
with how it came out. I will be able to take pictures of the female end
my trick for soldering it.

DaveB,

How did you manage to make the molds of the faceplate connectors?
Would you be able to give us a tip/the guides please?

I'm planning on molding the connector of the Sony CDX-GT460US

How did you manage to make the molds of the faceplate connectors?

What molds are you talking about? I dont recall anyone saying anything about molds.

I may be missing something....