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Grounding or power issue I can't figure out.
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<blockquote data-quote="TDot" data-source="post: 8127087" data-attributes="member: 645311"><p>Here's my situation, it's away from audio, but the carputer section seems dead. I have no other indications or symptoms of grounding or power issues, I do not have big 3 and don't think that has anything to do with it.</p><p></p><p>I have a computer with a dual screen set up, the main touchscreen, and the factory nav screen. My regular touchscreen has no issues at all. My nav screen with the regular car info feeding it has no problems either. Now when I feed the computer to the nav screen I start to get slight interference like hum bars. When the base really hits, that's when I really see the problem.</p><p></p><p>Currently I have all my audio and car grounded and powered together. 4g running from battery to a D block and feeding the stuff. And then the ground from everything to another D block, and from that to a point where I see other stuff is grounded from the car...so I know the grounding point is good.</p><p></p><p>What I've tried:</p><p></p><p>1/ used a laptop in place of the carputer with its own power and everything is fine.</p><p></p><p>2/ used an extension and plugged the carputer power to my house and everything is fine.</p><p></p><p>3/ discoed the power to the audio set up, took a wire ran it outside of the car back to the negative battery, and also tried the engine block and I still see the problem.</p><p></p><p>4/ connected the carputer to the cigarette lighter and still see the same problem.</p><p></p><p>Can noise be introduced into the power wire? Can the battery cause this? The other option I'm considering is to ground the carputer to the same point as the nav screen. Will that make a difference? I don't really want to do that because it will be hell to pull up my dash and trace that harness and wire. And then I doubt to run a 12-14g ground wire trunk to front is really good...I'm not running a 0/2-4g wire just for a computer.</p><p></p><p>Any other suggestions?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TDot, post: 8127087, member: 645311"] Here's my situation, it's away from audio, but the carputer section seems dead. I have no other indications or symptoms of grounding or power issues, I do not have big 3 and don't think that has anything to do with it. I have a computer with a dual screen set up, the main touchscreen, and the factory nav screen. My regular touchscreen has no issues at all. My nav screen with the regular car info feeding it has no problems either. Now when I feed the computer to the nav screen I start to get slight interference like hum bars. When the base really hits, that's when I really see the problem. Currently I have all my audio and car grounded and powered together. 4g running from battery to a D block and feeding the stuff. And then the ground from everything to another D block, and from that to a point where I see other stuff is grounded from the car...so I know the grounding point is good. What I've tried: 1/ used a laptop in place of the carputer with its own power and everything is fine. 2/ used an extension and plugged the carputer power to my house and everything is fine. 3/ discoed the power to the audio set up, took a wire ran it outside of the car back to the negative battery, and also tried the engine block and I still see the problem. 4/ connected the carputer to the cigarette lighter and still see the same problem. Can noise be introduced into the power wire? Can the battery cause this? The other option I'm considering is to ground the carputer to the same point as the nav screen. Will that make a difference? I don't really want to do that because it will be hell to pull up my dash and trace that harness and wire. And then I doubt to run a 12-14g ground wire trunk to front is really good...I'm not running a 0/2-4g wire just for a computer. Any other suggestions? [/QUOTE]
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