S-L-A-C-K-E-R
11-14-2008, 10:54 AM
It's one of those units you stick to your windshield with a suction cup base. It plugs into your cigarette lighter.
The problem is that it will make loud pops here and there and it seems to go with the music...mostly with the drums. :confused:
I've done a ton of troubleshooting to find the problem and I am almost certain that the problem is with my cigarette lighter output in my car.
Heres my trouble shooting
1.) I used the home kit that I have for the radio. It uses a different antennae and an A/C adapter. I used it on my home stereo and tried both the fm transmitter and the direct connection and neither made the noises. So I don't think it's anything wrong with the unit itself or the fm transmitter.
2.) I put the unit in the car and used the home kit antennea instead of the car kit antennae. The problems were still there. So it's not the car kit antennae.
3.) I went into my wife's car and tuned to the fm station on her car and got the signal. The unit was still hooked up in my car. I heard the same pops on her radio. So that led me to believe that it wasn't the radio in my car.
4.) I hooked up the whole unit in my wife's car and the problem went away. So I would guess that the cable that hooks up to the cigarette lighter is working fine.
The only thing left that could be wrong is the cigarette lighter in my car. Could it be putting out too much or too little power or something like that? It didn't always have this problem in this particular car. It just suddenly started doing it one day and it's been consistently doing it since. It doesn't start doing it right away either. Usually it takes anywhere from 1 - 5 minutes to start making the noises.
Any ideas? :dunno
The problem is that it will make loud pops here and there and it seems to go with the music...mostly with the drums. :confused:
I've done a ton of troubleshooting to find the problem and I am almost certain that the problem is with my cigarette lighter output in my car.
Heres my trouble shooting
1.) I used the home kit that I have for the radio. It uses a different antennae and an A/C adapter. I used it on my home stereo and tried both the fm transmitter and the direct connection and neither made the noises. So I don't think it's anything wrong with the unit itself or the fm transmitter.
2.) I put the unit in the car and used the home kit antennea instead of the car kit antennae. The problems were still there. So it's not the car kit antennae.
3.) I went into my wife's car and tuned to the fm station on her car and got the signal. The unit was still hooked up in my car. I heard the same pops on her radio. So that led me to believe that it wasn't the radio in my car.
4.) I hooked up the whole unit in my wife's car and the problem went away. So I would guess that the cable that hooks up to the cigarette lighter is working fine.
The only thing left that could be wrong is the cigarette lighter in my car. Could it be putting out too much or too little power or something like that? It didn't always have this problem in this particular car. It just suddenly started doing it one day and it's been consistently doing it since. It doesn't start doing it right away either. Usually it takes anywhere from 1 - 5 minutes to start making the noises.
Any ideas? :dunno