Mini disc player

crazy chester

Hi all.
Not sure if i am posting in the right section but im sure someone can point me in the right direction.
Basically i have a 4 disc minidisc changer from an imported japanese mitsubishi vehicle and i was wondering how i would go about converting it to work with my home stereo system. It as an 8 pin (din, i think) male and female connection on the back as well as 3 coloured wires (red with blue stripes, yellow with orange stripes and black with brown). I was hoping to do it in such a way that the output from the changer was a (white) left and (red) right stereo connection. Any help on this would be hugely appreciated!

Thanks:)

Payton

Personaly I would buy a MP3 player or an iPod and hook it up to the Radio/Cd player using an Fm transmitter

jaqian

Try the mp3car forum, they might be able to help.

cnocbui

Firstly you will need a 12v (13.8v) power source with enough amps to run the unit. There may be a sticker somewhere indicating how many amps it draws.

The black wire is likely the ground/negative wire, the red wire is likely the positive + power wire and the orange wire is likely positive + wire also that keeps the clock running/memory presets working while the main red wire is disconnected, since it would normally be switched through the ignition switch.

Just connect both the red and orange wires to positive + to get it to work.

The big question is whether one of the 8 pin DINs outputs a line level voltage to connect the unit to an amp, because that is what you would want in order to safely connect it to a stereo. If one of the DINs outputs a voltage sufficient to drive speakers directly, you would not want to hook that up to a stereo as you would possibly damge it.

You would need a multimeter to find out what the pins do on the DINs

Personally I would recommend you get an iPod and a dock for it. Connect the dock to the stereo aux inputs and off you go. the FM transmitters deliver poor sound quality.