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Ipod hookup for the Clarion XMD 1
I wanted to share my experience on making one of those custom cables from someone who has never soldered a single wire. It took about 6 hours of trial and error but I finally made one sucessfully.
I used the information from this resource:
http://www.planetnautique.com/index....&postorder=asc
Though informative, it still didn't quite answer my questions. It seems there was an easier alternative to soldering if you read the posts on page 8 or 9. Many people ordered the 13 pin dinn prewired - and the intructions in the final pages of the posts seemed to help newcomers without much trouble at all...
But for me - I had already ordered the 13 pin dinn, bought stereo headphone wire, pole switch, 30 watt solder gun and used an old cat 5 cable (ethernet) and cut all the wires off each side but two (the green and the green/white). Any two wired cable should do.
I'll save you the drama and cut to the final outcome and hopefully answer questions that I had:
1) The diagram on the site DOES show the perspective from the PLUG side - so you should solder your wire in reverse order.
2) If you've never soldered before, I found it easier to pull 5 pins out of the plug with needle nose pliers (they pop right out) solder the wires to each plug independently and then plug then back into the coresponding holes.
3) I paid extra special care to make sure the solder and none of the other wires touched (obvious, but some ppl had shorts and I suspect this was the cause).
4)I had the best luck with this when I just stripped about 1/4 of an inch of exposed wire from each wire and soldered it to the pin. I used
someone else to hold the wire and the pin, while I fumbled with the solder job - it worked out nicely.
5) Before I knew the diagram was in reverse I tried it on my boat and it almost melted my ipod - it was ok but there is a faint hot wire smell on my ipod - so my advice is when you throw the switch and it doesn't say ACCS on the unit - then don't try to plug anything into the headphone jack.
I hope my recent experience can benefit other boat owners who may have had the same questions that I had. If you haven't bought your set up yet ... please read the last few pages in the article above and purchase the prewired setup - it seemed like ppl had sucess with that method.
-Raleigh
I used the information from this resource:
http://www.planetnautique.com/index....&postorder=asc
Though informative, it still didn't quite answer my questions. It seems there was an easier alternative to soldering if you read the posts on page 8 or 9. Many people ordered the 13 pin dinn prewired - and the intructions in the final pages of the posts seemed to help newcomers without much trouble at all...
But for me - I had already ordered the 13 pin dinn, bought stereo headphone wire, pole switch, 30 watt solder gun and used an old cat 5 cable (ethernet) and cut all the wires off each side but two (the green and the green/white). Any two wired cable should do.
I'll save you the drama and cut to the final outcome and hopefully answer questions that I had:
1) The diagram on the site DOES show the perspective from the PLUG side - so you should solder your wire in reverse order.
2) If you've never soldered before, I found it easier to pull 5 pins out of the plug with needle nose pliers (they pop right out) solder the wires to each plug independently and then plug then back into the coresponding holes.
3) I paid extra special care to make sure the solder and none of the other wires touched (obvious, but some ppl had shorts and I suspect this was the cause).
4)I had the best luck with this when I just stripped about 1/4 of an inch of exposed wire from each wire and soldered it to the pin. I used
someone else to hold the wire and the pin, while I fumbled with the solder job - it worked out nicely.
5) Before I knew the diagram was in reverse I tried it on my boat and it almost melted my ipod - it was ok but there is a faint hot wire smell on my ipod - so my advice is when you throw the switch and it doesn't say ACCS on the unit - then don't try to plug anything into the headphone jack.
I hope my recent experience can benefit other boat owners who may have had the same questions that I had. If you haven't bought your set up yet ... please read the last few pages in the article above and purchase the prewired setup - it seemed like ppl had sucess with that method.
-Raleigh
Rest of the family has a 100, another 80, and a 4runner.
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