Greetings,

Just bught a 2006 Civic and am loving it, but because of the cost I didn't go for the 148$ CAD auxiliary input the dealer offered since I figured I could do it myself. I'm finding out that hooking up an auxiliary input may not be as easy as soldering on a set of wires since it looks like I need a converter of some kind to hook up to the CD Changer Port on the back of the radio. Blitzsafe and SoundGate offer converters for this purpose.

My question is, what do the Blitzsafe or SoundGate converters do exactly? There can't possibly be much to those little boxes. A couple resistors perhaps? Perhaps there are specs available out there for the CD changer port that would give me the pin-out of the conector...

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Cheers!
Jon

P.S.: Any info on taking the centre console apart would also be quite welcome.

 

Just buy one. After you figure it out and buy the materials and everything you'll be farther in the hole. Trust me, I'm an electrical engineer and you don't want to know how complicated some of that stuff can be to figure out if you don't have all the info on transfer rates and all that kind of stuff. I really doubt it's just a couple of resistors.

Welcome to the forum though.

 

I can't imagine that the product is so outragousley overpriced to justify trying to figure it out yourself, besides, with small electronics it would almost cost more to build it yourself in a lot of cases!!! The PAC products are designed to plug right in and don't take much more than patience and the ability to turn a wrench to install either so I'm sure you figure it out/!!!

 

Someone pointed out on another forum that there is a connector under the centre console that specifically placed for the purpose of hooking up an Aux input. I haven't taken a look under my console yet, but will pretty soon. The pinout is already figured out:

http://www.8thcivic.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6171


Install instructions for the OEM Aux jack are available here:

http://www.collegehillshonda.com/ins...an/cdtuner.pdf

Looks simple enough and it seems that I don't even need a converter...


Jon

 

Sorry, the link to the Aux jack install instructions is:

http://www.collegehillshonda.com/ins...an/auxjack.pdf

 

Ah yeah, it's really easy, just follow the pin-out they have listed there. Short the two brown ones and buy a 1/8" extnesion cable from radio shack, strip it off(leaving the female end) and tin (solder the straded wire together to make a single solid wire) insert them in the proper holes, fold the wire back over the plug and tape it up good and you'll be set. Might cost you $15.

 

Managed to hook up a plug with the link above.

- First pictures is the wiring into the plug.
- Second is the stereo jack screwed into the centre console. In the top right corner is the tiny plug installed in the console pocket.
- Third is a view of the centre console with a wire hooked into my friend's laptop.

Easy as pie and only cost me 2$ worth of wiring (found the stereo jack for free).