![]() Hook it up and only after you’ve verified it works, slide the covers over the connectors. Check your connections, re-check and check again. ![]() Wiring the DIN connectors can also cause problems because you have to remember if you are looking at the front of the connector or the back – they are a mirror image of each other. A fluorescent lamp with a magnifying glass is quite handy when working with the crimp pins. Without a proper crimping tool, getting a solid electrical and mechanical connection can be tricky. I crimped the pins with needle nose pliers and then added a very small amount of solder. I also drilled the exit hole on the connector cover to so that two cables could pass through.ĭepending on your expertise, you might consider bumping the quantities up a bit to account for “manufacturing yield”. I shortened the connector that fits into the Chatterbox and cut off the strain relief so that the weight of the cable wouldn’t put too much stress on the Chatterbox connector. I salvaged some audio cable from another project: Here’s the parts list for the breakout cable: But you might want your passenger’s breakout cable located at their end of the intercom cable instead of yours. Note that both the main and Intercom connectors on the Chatterbox have the same pinout so your passenger could also use a breakout cable and use earphones instead of the Chatterbox headset speakers. I hope Garmin will deliver a s/w upgrade for the zumo someday to allow it to broadcast MP3 in stereo. Using a separate Bluetooth adapter to get stereo is a bit of a pain because its something else that needs to be mounted to the bike and then maintained (e.g. This allows me to get navigation prompts as well because the zumo prioritizes its own audio. To get stereo, I use the iCombi AG12 Bluetooth adapter connected to the zumo cradle's audio out jack and pair it with the Chatterbox. It has Bluetooth but it broadcasts in mono. In my case, I am using a Garmin zumo as the MP3 player. Note that you can set the volume on the Chatterbox separately for each source. ![]() If you are using the radio comms and the phone rings, the radio comms will be muted. For example if you are listening to your MP3 music and a radio comms or phone signal is detected, the MP3 music is muted. The Chatterbox prioritizes each source in the following order: phone, radio comms, auxiliary. MP3 player) and phone) sourced from the Chatterbox goes through the earphones. With this set up, all audio (radio comms, auxiliary (e.g. There are no modifications required to either the Chatterbox or its headset and you can return it to its original configuration by removing the breakout cable and connecting the headset directly into the Chatterbox.Īnd here’s what it looks like when its installed on the helmet: ![]() The speaker wires are routed to a 1/8” stereo jack which connect to the earphones. This cable simply passes the microphone wires straight through to the receptacle that mates with the headset plug. But there’s no way to plug the 1/8” earphone jack into the Chatterbox because the Chatterbox uses a Mini-DIN connector for the speakers and the microphone.Ī non-destructive solution is to build a break-out cable that connects to the headset as well as the earphones. One way to improve sound quality would be to use one of the many noise isolating earphones now available such as the Etymotic ER6i. The headset that comes with the Chatterbox GMRS X1 Bluetooth is fine for radio comms, but it isn’t very good for music especially if you are using earplugs.
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