Comments on: How to hack an AUX input into a Delco tape deck for $10 http://notesfrommosquitohill.com/2009/02/how-to-hack-an-aux-input-into-a-delco-tape-deck-for-10.html random musings from the life of a firefighter, paramedic, train buff, family man Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:06:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Hakon http://notesfrommosquitohill.com/2009/02/how-to-hack-an-aux-input-into-a-delco-tape-deck-for-10.html/comment-page-1#comment-494 Hakon Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:50:00 +0000 http://notesfrommosquitohill.com/?p=34#comment-494 Nice, but would it not be better to hack the radio, so that the tape player does not have to run all the time, just in vane? Nice, but would it not be better to hack the radio, so that the tape player does not have to run all the time, just in vane?

]]> By: Wayfastwhitey69 http://notesfrommosquitohill.com/2009/02/how-to-hack-an-aux-input-into-a-delco-tape-deck-for-10.html/comment-page-1#comment-491 Wayfastwhitey69 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 12:58:00 +0000 http://notesfrommosquitohill.com/?p=34#comment-491 thanks alot. i had pretty much determined that myself looking through the clear plastic window on the side of the switch but its nice to have confirmation.  thanks alot. i had pretty much determined that myself looking through the clear plastic window on the side of the switch but its nice to have confirmation. 

]]> By: mack505 http://notesfrommosquitohill.com/2009/02/how-to-hack-an-aux-input-into-a-delco-tape-deck-for-10.html/comment-page-1#comment-490 mack505 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 05:33:00 +0000 http://notesfrommosquitohill.com/?p=34#comment-490 From looking at your pic it would appear that pin1 is common, Pins 2&5 are left and right signal, and pins 3/4 are the normally closed ones you would use if you wanted to keep the tape deck functional. I don't know which are left vs right. It doesn't really matter. HTH. From looking at your pic it would appear that pin1 is common, Pins 2&5 are left and right signal, and pins 3/4 are the normally closed ones you would use if you wanted to keep the tape deck functional. I don’t know which are left vs right. It doesn’t really matter. HTH.

]]> By: Wayfastwhitey69 http://notesfrommosquitohill.com/2009/02/how-to-hack-an-aux-input-into-a-delco-tape-deck-for-10.html/comment-page-1#comment-489 Wayfastwhitey69 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 00:29:00 +0000 http://notesfrommosquitohill.com/?p=34#comment-489 how do i determine which is left and which is right? sorry for spamming the post.  how do i determine which is left and which is right? sorry for spamming the post. 

]]> By: Wayfastwhitey69 http://notesfrommosquitohill.com/2009/02/how-to-hack-an-aux-input-into-a-delco-tape-deck-for-10.html/comment-page-1#comment-488 Wayfastwhitey69 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 00:13:00 +0000 http://notesfrommosquitohill.com/?p=34#comment-488 ok, im offically stumped. ive spent the last few hours trying to figure out whats what on this jack but i cant really find an answer. i have no clue how to read the diagram on the back of the jack he said to buy. here is a link to a picture i took of the back of the radioshack bag. if someone could please explain what goes where i would be eternally grateful lol. http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii274/eltatertoto/audiojack.jpg ok, im offically stumped. ive spent the last few hours trying to figure out whats what on this jack but i cant really find an answer. i have no clue how to read the diagram on the back of the jack he said to buy. here is a link to a picture i took of the back of the radioshack bag. if someone could please explain what goes where i would be eternally grateful lol.

http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii274/eltatertoto/audiojack.jpg

]]> By: Wayfastwhitey69 http://notesfrommosquitohill.com/2009/02/how-to-hack-an-aux-input-into-a-delco-tape-deck-for-10.html/comment-page-1#comment-487 Wayfastwhitey69 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:32:00 +0000 http://notesfrommosquitohill.com/?p=34#comment-487 thanks alot, doing this on a buick park ave. novice at electronics wiring. thanks alot, doing this on a buick park ave. novice at electronics wiring.

]]> By: mack505 http://notesfrommosquitohill.com/2009/02/how-to-hack-an-aux-input-into-a-delco-tape-deck-for-10.html/comment-page-1#comment-486 mack505 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:10:00 +0000 http://notesfrommosquitohill.com/?p=34#comment-486 Pin 1 is the striped wire. --- James The optimist sees the glass as half full; the pessimist as half empty. The engineer sees the glass as twice as large as necessary Pin 1 is the striped wire.

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James
The optimist sees the glass as half full; the pessimist as half empty. The engineer sees the glass as twice as large as necessary

]]> By: Wayfastwhitey69 http://notesfrommosquitohill.com/2009/02/how-to-hack-an-aux-input-into-a-delco-tape-deck-for-10.html/comment-page-1#comment-485 Wayfastwhitey69 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:45:00 +0000 http://notesfrommosquitohill.com/?p=34#comment-485 call me dumb... but how do you know which pin is which? what end do i count from? lol call me dumb… but how do you know which pin is which? what end do i count from? lol

]]> By: Mark Scudder http://notesfrommosquitohill.com/2009/02/how-to-hack-an-aux-input-into-a-delco-tape-deck-for-10.html/comment-page-1#comment-480 Mark Scudder Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:27:00 +0000 http://notesfrommosquitohill.com/?p=34#comment-480 Thank you.  I have a deck in an '02 LeSabre that has a bad tape head that seems to "sum" everything to mono, so the cassette adapter I was using wasn't providing very good audio, and as you said, the FM modulators are underpowered garbage.  After spending two days trying to jack in to the circuit at points in the tape deck module - somehow the tape head was still part of the circuit and was summing even external signals - I ran across your blog post when I was about to give up.  I had a feeling two of those wires sent clean, line-level left and right back to the amps, but I didn't know which ones, and I didn't feel like blowing up my iPod if I accidentally touched it to the 12V line in my search for the right wires.  But you found 'em.  I got a patch cable right in there, and it works like a charm.  One thing, at least on mine, if you get a thin stick and use it to push on the vertical plastic piece that the tape hits when it goes in the deck, there's a good chance it'll just engage the mechanism and think there's a tape in there, forever, which allows you to switch to the tape source anytime you want, without having a tape in there. I should also mention I had access to the deck out of my father in law's old '01 LeSabre, which worked perfectly fine with the cassette adapter, but thanks to TheftLock II, despite the head unit fitting in my dash, I couldn't make it work.  GM needs to get real with this Theftlock crap.  Nobody steals factory head units anymore, and the professional chop shops that do deal in black market car parts have the means and the money to get their hands on the $3,000 "Tech II" computer that can reprogram the decks and defeat Theftlock.  So it appears that the only people really hurt by this technology are honest consumers like me, who in a bad economy find a better way to fix things. Thanks much for your post.  You saved me a lot of money, a lot of frustration, and helped me win one against a real cluster. Thank you.  I have a deck in an ’02 LeSabre that has a bad tape head that seems to “sum” everything to mono, so the cassette adapter I was using wasn’t providing very good audio, and as you said, the FM modulators are underpowered garbage.  After spending two days trying to jack in to the circuit at points in the tape deck module – somehow the tape head was still part of the circuit and was summing even external signals – I ran across your blog post when I was about to give up.  I had a feeling two of those wires sent clean, line-level left and right back to the amps, but I didn’t know which ones, and I didn’t feel like blowing up my iPod if I accidentally touched it to the 12V line in my search for the right wires.  But you found ‘em.  I got a patch cable right in there, and it works like a charm.  One thing, at least on mine, if you get a thin stick and use it to push on the vertical plastic piece that the tape hits when it goes in the deck, there’s a good chance it’ll just engage the mechanism and think there’s a tape in there, forever, which allows you to switch to the tape source anytime you want, without having a tape in there.

I should also mention I had access to the deck out of my father in law’s old ’01 LeSabre, which worked perfectly fine with the cassette adapter, but thanks to TheftLock II, despite the head unit fitting in my dash, I couldn’t make it work.  GM needs to get real with this Theftlock crap.  Nobody steals factory head units anymore, and the professional chop shops that do deal in black market car parts have the means and the money to get their hands on the $3,000 “Tech II” computer that can reprogram the decks and defeat Theftlock.  So it appears that the only people really hurt by this technology are honest consumers like me, who in a bad economy find a better way to fix things.

Thanks much for your post.  You saved me a lot of money, a lot of frustration, and helped me win one against a real cluster.

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