Cigarette lighter Car adapter.

mp3pc · 07-09-2001, 06:58 AM

When trying to hook up my portable cd player to my car radio with a cigarette power adapter I get ALOT of backround noise. With AA batteries it sounds very clean. Can anyone help with this? I have my sound feeding intro the cd changer hookup of my pioneer with the correct adapter head runninf into a small project box and then to a headphone sized jack.

cenwesi · 07-09-2001, 07:43 AM

Grounding your equipment will solve this problem. Another easy way is to get one of those noise filter thing from radio shack, cost about $15

mp3pc · 07-09-2001, 11:02 AM

What equiptment am I grounding? My System is grounded..... And my lighter should be grounding my portable correct? I have a noise filter in a drawer someplace... I would wire that throught my sound input ....

wizardPC · 07-09-2001, 11:37 AM

the ground in your cigarette lighter is horrible. It's VERY noisy. You _could_ take apart your dash and properly ground the cigarette lighter (and then put the dash back together, of course)

mp3pc · 07-09-2001, 09:04 PM

sounds like a good tip thanx for the advice. Maype I will hard wire it all and skip the lighter , add a switch.... What do you think?

wizardPC · 07-10-2001, 08:22 AM

thats a much better idea

ppgt94 · 07-23-2001, 03:54 AM

Or buy a cd-deck? Won't have to worry about skipping