poncherello

Jazzy,

I would really like to request a color install PDF instead of the black and white photos. It's really hard to tell from the photos what is what and I think everyone would benefit.

I am also confused a little bit on the need for a ground loop isolator. In all cases is it best to have one of these? If not, what circumstances?

Thanks in advance.

Ponch

Jazzmt,

I want to thank you so much for your time and effort. I'm telling you, there is some serious money to be made here. You need a website and merchant account. You should be able to set this up cheap with SBC small business plan or something along these lines. You could be up and running in a 3 days. I'm sure if you got the word out there on enough Subaru websites you could mint a small fortune.

This is not just for Legacys but for the whole subaru lineup. Hell, subaru should be working directly with you to add this as an accessory. But alas, I doubt they would as they seem to be clueless that people actually want MP3 and aux in capability.

I wish you all the best in with this project. I'll be buying one in the near future.

Filename or foldername is good enough. As long as there's a method in place for transfering text, I bet you could even scroll text (by manually changing one letter at a time) on the display if you could decipher the code for displaying any text. If there is no version difference on the amp, it should be possible to do the same thing on the 2.5 6CD.

 

Either way, I'd really need a 3.0 6CD to watch the communications when displaying text to know how to do it...unless by some stroke of luck I can find the specs on the control chip online somewhere. That's what I meant by "testing". I'm sure this simple aux board will work fine for both...probably with the one CD radio in the 2.5i too.

 

As far as the mute, I think mvigneau has prooved that the signal line mute is only used for skipping CD's and the change CD & change track mutes are probably digital since he's disabled the signal line mute and (according to him) it still mutes on track & disk changes. I'm not really sure what advantage his has anymore since it will mute every 3 min or so on a normal CD track change...that would get annoying pretty quick & then you're left with needing a one track CD anyway to reduce the muting...?

 

This way-down-the-line, expensive, digital control board would bypass all of that since it would just tell the CD changer to turn off (standby) and dupe the radio into thinking it's talking to the CD player while it's really talking to an Ipod, carputer or even an unintelligent device like XM, rio or other mp3/sound source. Then there's no need to interrupt mute signals, cuz they just wouldn't exist. Of course, none of this could be accomplished w/o some serious work, not to mention more cash.