Ipod dock for car with dock port and AUX out/power in
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Hi
I'm pretty sure I found one these a couple of weeks back on the web somewhere, but now can't find one anywhere! Basically, I have aux-in on my head unit for the Ipod, works great. I saw a car-mount specific for my car (Alfa 147), that sat just to the side of the gearstick, and used the bottom dock port of the Ipod. It had a fly-lead coming off it that had a 3.5mm audio cable to plug into an Aux-in, and also a cigarette lighter adaptor to provide power to charge the Ipod. My idea being to strip this off and hard-wire it!
But I can't find the damn things anywhere!
Does anyone else use something similar and can provide info on where to get one?
Cheers
I'm pretty sure I found one these a couple of weeks back on the web somewhere, but now can't find one anywhere! Basically, I have aux-in on my head unit for the Ipod, works great. I saw a car-mount specific for my car (Alfa 147), that sat just to the side of the gearstick, and used the bottom dock port of the Ipod. It had a fly-lead coming off it that had a 3.5mm audio cable to plug into an Aux-in, and also a cigarette lighter adaptor to provide power to charge the Ipod. My idea being to strip this off and hard-wire it!
But I can't find the damn things anywhere!
Does anyone else use something similar and can provide info on where to get one?
Cheers
Alleggerita said:
Hi
I'm pretty sure I found one these a couple of weeks back on the web somewhere, but now can't find one anywhere! Basically, I have aux-in on my head unit for the Ipod, works great. I saw a car-mount specific for my car (Alfa 147), that sat just to the side of the gearstick, and used the bottom dock port of the Ipod. It had a fly-lead coming off it that had a 3.5mm audio cable to plug into an Aux-in, and also a cigarette lighter adaptor to provide power to charge the Ipod. My idea being to strip this off and hard-wire it!
But I can't find the damn things anywhere!
Does anyone else use something similar and can provide info on where to get one?
Cheers
Can't help with that, but the following info might be useful:I'm pretty sure I found one these a couple of weeks back on the web somewhere, but now can't find one anywhere! Basically, I have aux-in on my head unit for the Ipod, works great. I saw a car-mount specific for my car (Alfa 147), that sat just to the side of the gearstick, and used the bottom dock port of the Ipod. It had a fly-lead coming off it that had a 3.5mm audio cable to plug into an Aux-in, and also a cigarette lighter adaptor to provide power to charge the Ipod. My idea being to strip this off and hard-wire it!
But I can't find the damn things anywhere!
Does anyone else use something similar and can provide info on where to get one?
Cheers
The cigarette lighter adapter will probably have a small voltage "transformer" in it to drop the voltage to something like 3.5 volts for your iPod to use safely. Cutting it off and hardwiring it in will obviously not be in the best interests of your iPod.
Interestingly, if you hard-wire my dad's sat-nav into a 306, it blows up the unit. If you then, instead of taking his buggered unit and trying it in my car with the same setup take MY sat nav and plug it into said hard-wired connection, it blows that up too.
crofty1984 said:
Alleggerita said:
Hi
I'm pretty sure I found one these a couple of weeks back on the web somewhere, but now can't find one anywhere! Basically, I have aux-in on my head unit for the Ipod, works great. I saw a car-mount specific for my car (Alfa 147), that sat just to the side of the gearstick, and used the bottom dock port of the Ipod. It had a fly-lead coming off it that had a 3.5mm audio cable to plug into an Aux-in, and also a cigarette lighter adaptor to provide power to charge the Ipod. My idea being to strip this off and hard-wire it!
But I can't find the damn things anywhere!
Does anyone else use something similar and can provide info on where to get one?
Cheers
Can't help with that, but the following info might be useful:I'm pretty sure I found one these a couple of weeks back on the web somewhere, but now can't find one anywhere! Basically, I have aux-in on my head unit for the Ipod, works great. I saw a car-mount specific for my car (Alfa 147), that sat just to the side of the gearstick, and used the bottom dock port of the Ipod. It had a fly-lead coming off it that had a 3.5mm audio cable to plug into an Aux-in, and also a cigarette lighter adaptor to provide power to charge the Ipod. My idea being to strip this off and hard-wire it!
But I can't find the damn things anywhere!
Does anyone else use something similar and can provide info on where to get one?
Cheers
The cigarette lighter adapter will probably have a small voltage "transformer" in it to drop the voltage to something like 3.5 volts for your iPod to use safely. Cutting it off and hardwiring it in will obviously not be in the best interests of your iPod.
Interestingly, if you hard-wire my dad's sat-nav into a 306, it blows up the unit. If you then, instead of taking his buggered unit and trying it in my car with the same setup take MY sat nav and plug it into said hard-wired connection, it blows that up too.
Yeah, I'd take the transformer out of the plug bit too if I could. If not, I have an adjustable regulator somewhere that I could use.
Justayellowbadge said:
Hmm, that would probably do the job but is overkill, and I don't want to spend another £80.Thudd said:
I think there are threads on www.Alfaowner.com about this.
Probably the one that I started: Edited by Alleggerita on Monday 1st September 16:51
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