Silly car audio question

[NotMatt]

Maybe some of you bumpin subs experts can help me with this one.

I have a cheap off-brand CD player that I bought for 80 bucks from wal-mart for my Jeep. I bought it cause it was cheap, and it has an input for my USB thumb drive on it like my nice cd player in my truck, so I can put music on a thumb drive. Anyway, that's beside the point...

The problem is, after I installed it, I started noticing that half the time I would start my Jeep, it would lose all of it's memory settings... I'm not an idiot when it comes to wiring it up, I had the constant hot hooked up as well as the ignition hot lead.

So tonight I completely re-wired it. I installed an auxillary fuse box under the hood a while back for just this kind of stuff, so I wired up a fused 15 amp circuit with 14 gauge wire all the way to the cd player, and wired up a constant to both the red and yellow (ign. and always hot), so I could leave the cd player on when I turn the rig off. I installed the ground to a solid ground on the body.

However, the cd player still loses it's memory settings sometimes when I start my rig.

Is there some kind of capacitator I need to put inline on the hot to keep the voltage drop during starting from wiping out my memory settings, or what? This is the only CD player that's done this, I'm sure it's because it's a cheap wal-mart special, but it would be nice to find a simple fix for it, since it works good other than this issue.

Any suggestions?

 

[4xjunkie]

Measure your voltage at the battery during cranking, possible battery issue or possible starter issue.

also try to relocate your ground wire.

 

[zig80toy]

That sounds like the same CD player i bought. Its got a usb connection and an SD card slot. I loved it, unfortunately it sold along with a 4runner i had awhile ago. The next time i buy a stereo thats the one.
Now, i'm not sure what to say about your problem. When i hooked up mine i tapped into the existing wires for the old tape deck. It was quick, simple, and i never had to think about it again. Those CD players are cheap, so maybe you got a bad one.?.
Because it looses memory only half the time, I'm going to blame this on the CD player. If you got it wired to a constantly hot source off the bat than you should not have any problems. I can't remember exactly what wire off the back of the player is constant hot, but i'ma say yellow.
Just make sure you don't have the yellow and red wires backwards...

 

[crazybluerider1]

Sounds like a ground problem to me. Check your battery grounds and your stereo grounds. Maybe just run a ground wire clear to the batt from the stereo.

Hope that helps :awesomework:

 

[NotMatt]

That sounds like the same CD player i bought. Its got a usb connection and an SD card slot. I loved it, unfortunately it sold along with a 4runner i had awhile ago. The next time i buy a stereo thats the one.
Now, i'm not sure what to say about your problem. When i hooked up mine i tapped into the existing wires for the old tape deck. It was quick, simple, and i never had to think about it again. Those CD players are cheap, so maybe you got a bad one.?.
Because it looses memory only half the time, I'm going to blame this on the CD player. If you got it wired to a constantly hot source off the bat than you should not have any problems. I can't remember exactly what wire off the back of the player is constant hot, but i'ma say yellow.
Just make sure you don't have the yellow and red wires backwards...

Well, they can't be backwards since both the red and yellow (the two power wires on the cd player) are wired to the same constant hot. I want the cd player to stay on when I turn the ignition off, so I did that.

The battery in the rig is brand new, and the starter is less than a year old. I might double check the body ground strap though... :eeek:

It may well be just a dud cd player, in which case I'm going to skip buying a new one and just put in an old spare junker I have that only plays cd's.

 

[hwcurtice]

Are you sure we can't blame it on the Jeep? :redneck:


J/K My son has electrical issues with his Jeep, that's why I say that...

 

[WHITE TRASH1]

Survey says you need to take that Vr3 (I have the same one) back to wally world for exchange.

 

[NotMatt]

Survey says you need to take that Vr3 (I have the same one) back to wally world for exchange.

Yep, that's the one. I bought it like a year ago and have since lost the receipt and all the other packaging that came with it. Think they'll still take it back?

I'm going to re-do the ground tonight and see if that makes any difference, otherwise I'm going to ditch the thing and find a different one.

 

[84Toyota4x4]

Yep, that's the one. I bought it like a year ago and have since lost the receipt and all the other packaging that came with it. Think they'll still take it back?

Yup. Just buy a new one, then put your broken one back in the box for the new one and take it back with the receipt for the new one as a return :haha:

~T.J.

PS - I do not condone such activity. Just wanted to get that out there before the "integrity police" show up.

 

[ToyZuki]

You dont need a recipt at WM if your not expecting cash. Store credit for a new one can be done without it.

 

[billy12360]

Yup. Just buy a new one, then put your broken one back in the box for the new one and take it back with the receipt for the new one as a return :haha:

~T.J.

PS - I do not condone such activity. Just wanted to get that out there before the "integrity police" show up.

i like this mans idea... it would most likely work

*walks away whistlin* i would never do something like that

 

[wentz912]

i like this mans idea... it would most likely work

*walks away whistlin* i would never do something like that

It does work, did it with one of my madre's old x-mas presents after it took a **** on her 4 months after.