Remote face plate mounting?

[deceptiwave]

Cool site. First post.

I am trying to remote mount the face on my DEHP4800. I havent done this before and I was curious what to look out for/expect to encounter.

A few questions I have are:

1- will the cd eject and load?

2- is there a button that needs to be pressed for the face to work?

3- voltage drop effect the face? I need to move the face about 12 feet.

Anybody had any luck with this?

The unit is going into my 1969 mach1 and I am keeping all the components hidden to make the car appear stock.

Thanks in advance.

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[azbass 5,000+ posts]

its been done, and there is a thread on it.

 

[deceptiwave]

A link would be great.

Thanks

 

[deceptiwave]

OK - So I did it and it turned out fine.

Or so I thought.

I cant get the CD out of the main unit.

Is there a wire that needs an interupt or switch on it to be able to eject the CD?

its a DEHP4800 if that helps.

Thanks

 

[pattyweb 10+ year member]

I did something similar to an 880PRS and I can eject my CD but it was a bit of work.

1) Did you keep the movable face backplate in place? Is it still going up and down? If so, then I don't know what your issue is except to think that you haven't properly kept the eject wire/pin hooked up.

2) Did you remove the motorized mechanism? I did. The trick is that there are 2 wires going to the motor and 3 wires going to the sensor switches that detect whether the face is up or down. I just removed the whole motorized mechanism and tricked the unit into thinking the face is always down (by shorting the two wires that indicated down) and my eject works fine.

 

[yacob.naif 10+ year member]

anyone have some pics?

that's a neat idea......

my headunit's too deep to allow my radio-cover to flip down, and if i could remote mount the unit itself, and simply have the face there, it would be fantastical.

 

[deceptiwave]

Pattyweb - I mounted the face in the glovebox and the main unit is in the trunk of the car. I just simply soldered the 12 pins with Cat5 and ran the cables.

I was able to load one CD for testing, but now I cant get it out.

I think one of the pins/wires is an interupt to the face to enable the CD to eject, but I dont know which one...

As soon as I get the rest of the stuff installed and a new amp, the pix will be updated on my cardomain account.

 

[Belunt 10+ year member]

I'm thinking of doing this too. Check HERE