How do I get rid of alternator whine?

[superpunchy]

I just bought one of those little FM transmitters that plugs into the cigarette lighter of my car for my portable MP3 player so I could listen to it using my factory car stereo. It works just fine and I'm very pleased with it so far except I am getting a fair amount of alternator whine in the audio through the car speakers. Is there a way to get rid of this noise?

I am using a factory stock setup. I have not modified anything (yet).

My setup is as follows:

Car: 1999 Chevrolet Lumina (bone stock)

Portable mp3 player: Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra

Car FM transmitter: Griffin iTrip Auto Universal Plus

Again; everything works fine and I'm perfectly happy with this setup except for the annoying alternator whine in the background of the audio.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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[brtnboarder3241 5,000+ posts]

shit i didnt rea.d

 

[Hydrastas 10+ year member]

unhook the alt and spank it til it stops whining. i've heard crap about those ground loop isolators, but when i used mine back in the day it actually worked. only ones i've seen are for rca though, maybe if you hooked your speakers into a high input to rca adapter and then hooked up a rca to mp3 adapter then you could put in the ground loop iso inbetween the rca-mp3 and just forget about your cig lighter thing altogether.

 

[Scoobydoo 5,000+ posts]

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