Wondering if I fried my XM tuner box?
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Topic: Wondering if I fried my XM tuner box?
Posted By: stoneweed1
Subject: Wondering if I fried my XM tuner box?
Date Posted: May 30, 2004 at 9:08 PM
I have an alpine XM ready headunit which works fine.
I put the Alpine XM tuner in the trunk and connected it the antennae, AI net cable and the ground and battery.
One problem though, I accidently connected the yellow (battery) wire as ground and black (ground) wire to the battery for a very brief moment (under 5 seconds).
The fuse on the XM tuner did not pop and the black wire got really hot and a bit of smoke ensued.
Here is what the headunit does - the headunit recognizes the XM stations and gets them and displays them and even the audio bars light up and go up and down, however I get no sound. no sound whatsoever. I can change stations and flip through genres and they all display, but no audio.
I resetted the headunit and still no audio, and my question is do u think I fried the tuner box.
I hope not, and i am wondering if there is anything else to problem solve first?
And if I fried the tunerbox, can this be repaired?
Replies:
Posted By: Manoftools
Date Posted: May 30, 2004 at 10:08 PM
I would imagine that you did wreck your tuner. That especially sucks because it is one of the ridiculously expensive A-I net Alpine's. I would bring it into a larger electronics repair shop... many of the smaller ones may not be familiar with satellite radio tuners.
Posted By: Alpine Guy
Date Posted: May 30, 2004 at 10:08 PM
man that sux! , so you get no sound even on cd?
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2003 Chevy Avalanche,Eclipse CD7000,Morel Elate 5,Adire Extremis,Alpine PDX-4.150, 15" TC-3000, 2 Alpine PDX-1.1000, 470Amp HO Alt.
Posted By: oldsbravo5
Date Posted: May 30, 2004 at 10:15 PM
Maybe someone else knows better then myself, but if your getting data from the tuner and the deck is recognizing XM, then all may not be lost...Seems to me that only the audio portion of the bus-cable/bus-cable output is fried if its getting the data through to the deck.
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Posted By: stoneweed1
Date Posted: May 30, 2004 at 10:52 PM
On my headunit, I toggle the SOURCE button on the Alpine XM ready Headunit and I am able to listen to regular non-XM radio, CDs/MP3 on CD-R without any problems. When I toggle the source, the Headunit does recognize that XM Tuner exists (if I disconnect the XM Tuner, the XM Tuner source disappears). However there is no audio when on XM Tuner. I can pick up stations and genres and the audio bars do move up and down as if sound was coming out. One thing i'll check is to see if specific songs/titles still display correctly. i don't remember and i'll check it out tomorrow. Any thoughts?
Posted By: DYohn
Date Posted: May 31, 2004 at 10:30 AM
Have yu tried a new AI Net cable? ------------- Support the12volt.com
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