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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: ipod

« on: 11 July 2009, 18:55:01 »

Thats a sure sign of the poor quality ones !! Why not try one of mine, no complaints from any that we have sold ! And loads on this forum seem to rate them quite highly when used with the Omega

 

My issue is with having to tune to an unused frequency in one location, then travel to another location where a local station interferes. The transmitter I'm using at the moment provides perfectly good audio whilst there's no contention with local stations.

What I want is something that I don't have to stop (or start lane wandering  ) whilst trying to dial in a new (uncontested) frequency.

Or... are you saying that your unit will do this, and reliably blast through any local radio station (not convinced that this would be possible, tbh)

If the unit works as I want (i.e. set-up once, and forget) then I might be interested, however, I cannot see it being as robust as a wired solution.

Anyone attest to the AM-88T not requiring any fiddling once set, even when driving from region to region?

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: ipod

« on: 11 July 2009, 14:36:56 »

Hmmm, having just travelled Lancashire -> Cornwall and back, I'm beginning to truely hate FM transmitters as a solution - even reasonable quality ones have trouble as you travel from region to region to find a spare frequency.

For a CCR2006 / Bose system (i.e. facelift Elite), anyone tried digging in the unit?, let's face it - no-one (waiting for flames) is going to use the tape player - any chance of finding a line-level feed into the unit by unhooking the tape-player pre-amp feed. I've not looked inside it yet, but now I'm closer to my tools I'm getting awfully tempted to try.

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: CCR 2006 - trying to get Navman GPS audio played

« on: 23 June 2008, 00:05:47 »

Indeed, and agreed.

To be honest, the mute circuit wasn't doing too bad, and I think the miggy / CR2006 switches probably fast enough that there's no need for a delay-line. That was my thought before trying a test-drive when I found that the electrical noise in the car basially fubar'd the system.

As the wife says... there's signposts all the way to Bournmouth.

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: CCR 2006 - trying to get Navman GPS audio played

« on: 22 June 2008, 17:11:07 »

Your navman cannot send the mute signal to the headunit.  There are some adapters to do this, but tend to clip the initial audio, are are ultimately unsuccessful

Bah, stop being a defeatist!, a simple analogue delay could be provided (1/2 sec should do)

(Hmmm, this is starting to sound more of a project than I'd hoped for for travelling to France in 4 days time.... but, digital delay line, VoX circuit on input, still could be done... where'd I leave my soldering iron)

Sigh!, a sign of the times, 20 years ago this sort of stuff would be common place in kit form, now there's bugger all in the usual suspects (Maplin kits, ebay, etc)

I remember a kit (Brodit?) about 3 yrs ago.  I think 1/2s delay is too long, esp for handheld satnavs that leave until last minute anyway.  I seem to recall the solution for that particular kit was a new set of tomtom voices that had a short beep, small delay, then instruction.

Defeatist? No. But I simply don't think its worth the effort

Okay, threw together a couple of Maplin kits - a pre-amp and a monostable timer, worked fine until I fired the engine up, then the noise kicked in and threw the audio into constant "MESSAGE".

Sigh, getting bored of this, maybe you're right, too much effort for too little gain.

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: CCR 2006 - trying to get Navman GPS audio played

« on: 21 June 2008, 19:45:01 »

Your navman cannot send the mute signal to the headunit.  There are some adapters to do this, but tend to clip the initial audio, are are ultimately unsuccessful

Bah, stop being a defeatist!, a simple analogue delay could be provided (1/2 sec should do)

(Hmmm, this is starting to sound more of a project than I'd hoped for for travelling to France in 4 days time.... but, digital delay line, VoX circuit on input, still could be done... where'd I leave my soldering iron)

Sigh!, a sign of the times, 20 years ago this sort of stuff would be common place in kit form, now there's bugger all in the usual suspects (Maplin kits, ebay, etc)

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / CCR 2006 - trying to get Navman GPS audio played

« on: 21 June 2008, 16:22:28 »

Car: Elite 2.6 facelift, 2001.

I've had the car three years or so, when I first got it there was the remnants of a hands-free kit. This I removed as I didn't want it, need it, and it almost certainly wasn't compatible with my phone.

I've now got a Navman N60i GPS system, and am toying with the idea of hooking this up to provide muting of stereo / playing of Navman audio through car speakers.

Now, take a look at this (800kb JPEG image) taken from the passenger footwell, this was where the hands-free was hooked into...

http://www.summat.co.uk/P1010138.JPG

It shows an 18-pin connector, with three wires snipped...

Red, presumably 12Vdc
Black, presumably Ground
Brown, unknown

And the original wiring going to the connector...

Shielded twin - guessing microphone
twisted-pair brown & blue - function ?
black - another ground?
yellow - function?

Ideally, I'd like to source 12 volts, and route the headphone output from the Navman.

Does anyone have any idea or schematic for the connector?

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Omega General Help / Y26SE Engine number - where to find???

« on: 18 August 2009, 19:38:00 »

Title says it all. A bit of a newb question I know, but having spent 20 minutes with a torch under the bonnet I'm buggered if I can find the engine code (Omega 2.6V6, Y26SE engine)

I know it's on the carpass, and the V5, but I had (past tense!) a document from the 1st owner that said engine replaced at 40k, and I don't know if that means the V5/carpass would have been updated/re-issued on that.

So, unless someone has a magic box to verify VIN vs engine number, can anyone confirm where to start looking on the engine?

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Omega General Help / Re: Oh Bugger - The END?

« on: 18 August 2006, 11:34:05 »

Gah!, just doner a bloody battery - we're on tenterhooks here

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Omega General Help / Re: Oh Bugger - The END?

« on: 27 July 2006, 18:17:00 »

Hmmm, but could be worth £250 for the inevitable f*** up, caught on camera

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Omega General Help / Re: Oh Bugger - The END?

« on: 18 July 2006, 20:47:15 »

Towed my old man from Atherton to Preston - around 25 miles. Lol - just did the route on theaa.co.uk, obviously no motorway since towing - route says it all ("roundabout, roundabout, roundabout, roundabout..."). No incidents, despite rush-hour saturday through Chorley (more roundabouts, roundabouts...) but after 2-3 hrs towing I'd never do it again.

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Omega General Help / Re: Oh Bugger - The END?

« on: 17 July 2006, 19:29:49 »

If this actually comes to anything then can I just say you lot have restored my faith in human nature.  

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Omega General Help / Re: '51 plate (facelift) - removal of door panel??

« on: 25 November 2006, 16:32:39 »

**** ME!

That's a quick reply...

Aha, and cheers - much appreciated - there did seem to be a plastic "ridge" around the magic hidden screw, but it felt too much like part of the moulding of the door panel.

(looks outside... Bugger!, it's gone dark already)

Ok, a job for tomorrow morning.

Thanks a lot, MarkJay, a 7 minute 5 star reply. (hmmmm, took me longer to find a torch to look behind the panel than it did for MJ's reply)

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Omega General Help / '51 plate (facelift) - removal of door panel???

« on: 25 November 2006, 16:21:19 »

Hi,

Have a look at this (large image) -

I'm trying to get the door panel off to unstick / lubricate the door lock - it sometimes (often) doesn't open/close on the RCL, although can be actuated from the door lock plunger.

This problem, in itself, seems fairly common, and I just want to remove the door panel to clean-up and lubricate the locking mechanism / drive servo.

So, Haynes BoL doesn't cover this model, although I have a copy anyway, but the doors seem to be one of those items that're different between pre-facelift and facelift models.

I've found the screws ringed in RED, but by applyingsome pressure to remove the panel it's obvious there's something holding the panel on around the Green area (I've also shone a torch down behind the panel as much as I can, which confirms that there's something around there coupled to the door.

Any clues as to what's holding the last bit of the panel on?, and how to remove it?

My thoughts were on the door rubbish compartment (well, it's where the wife leaves all her rubbish, anyway), but that seems to be part of the main moulding of the door panel (and no obvious way to remove it). I've removed the window controls - seen dangling on their cable-form, but there's nothing behind those.

Any help gratefully received!

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Omega General Help / Re: Elite Spare Wheel

« on: 30 August 2006, 09:03:39 »

that'll teach me not to check inside the tyre and not just the outside !

P.

Been there. Done that.

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Omega General Help / Re: Alignment the big con, an educational read ind

« on: 06 August 2006, 11:56:52 »

Thanks for the info, paul_wighton in Oldham has just been emailed, thanks for the Trusted links.