Autocom static and other problems

[hdfan]

Pro 7 Sport. All was working well then my right speaker in the helmet seemed to be much quieter than the left. In trouble shooting it appeared to be the 7pin cable from the Autocom to the rider as the rear seemed to work. So it looks like the source of my weak channel problem.

1) is this repalceable? The end appears to be internal to the unit.

After shifting back and forth with front and rear several times in this process two things happened.

1) From the rider perspective when I speak into the mike I no longer hear myself on my speakers. I am not sure what happened.

2) I have got a lot of static in the system when listening to the radio or Cd in both front and rear systems. It sounds like a bad connection somewhere. Any ideas?

3) What is the jack beside the vox level knob? It has a blind jack in it going nowhere and for what ever reason, the system seems to work a bit better (or at least different) with it out, but still not good. But this makes no sense.

Sorry if this is confusing. I am not sure what happened. Maybe I should have left well enough alone with a weak right channel. I would love any input if you can follow my woes. Maybe with all of the rain I got some water in one of the 7 pins. Would that be problematic?

Any ideas. I may head off to the dealer to troubleshoot. I am out of options.

[grahamw]

Ken

Point 3) What is the jack beside the vox level knob?

Some of the older autcoms have this and it acts in the same way as a Loudness switch - lets you vary the volume if you wear earplugs.

point 2) I have got a lot of static...

The music is pluged into the autocom with a 3.5m stereo plug. Buy a male/male adaptor and plug in a set of headphones - do not put them in your ears until the music is playing, or use a male/male lead and plug in a MP3 player. If there is static present it is your wiring from the speaker loom to unit. If there is no static it is the autocom.

First point1 needs a dealer and I do not know about the second point 1 but you may have moved something as you were getting the unit out.

Good luck

[sanjaun2]

Ken,
I have spare parts (whole system) that you could use for troubleshooting or should I say shot gunning. Only you would have to make another trip down south. I would make sure all your connections are good and if possible.... DRY! I know, thats a little hard to do around here lately

[lavamanz]

I had a problem similar with one side of my helmet speakers. I troubleshot it by experimenting and changing cables from my other helmet setup to see where the problem was coming from. It turns out the cable supplying the helmet (called the spider cbl) was the culprit. This is the cable the speakers and mic plug into. You can buy the spider cable separately (w/o mic/speakers) for $19.99 from Topgear 888-851-4327. It might be possible to open the harness up and further troubleshoot and repair but I chose to spend the $20 and rather than pay their shipping/handling fees I told them to put it in an envelope and mail by USPS ($3).

As far as static, I had the harness that connects in to my rear speakers and before I soldered the connections I got static.