Jensen AWM970 Radio/Audio System installed in the Edge M21 TT

pegmikef

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One more dumb question. What's the deal with the cable set coming from rear of the audio system? Mine has 2 RCA female audio plugs and 1 RCA female video plug. My first thought was that they were an output for the dvd player (schematic shows some outputs), but apparently that's not true. When I hooked them up as such, I got nothing. If they are some type of input, why would one input video to an audio nondisplay device. Thanks
 

pegmikef

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Nevermind, I think I answered my own question. The cable is apparently for inputting audio from your TV and I now seem to recall that the video is required to synch the audio with the pictture, not to display the video.
 

pegmikef

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Nevermind, I think I answered my own question. The cable is apparently for inputting audio from your TV and I now seem to recall that the video is required to synch the audio with the pictture, not to display the video.

Well, I was wrong when I thought I had answered my own question. Here's the whole story and as a result I requested a design change in the manufacturing process to add the cabling necessary to access all of the input and output capabilities without having to remove the installed audio system.

As I had already said, my 2011 M21 came with the AWM970 audio system installed with two pair of speakers already wired (one inside and one outside). There was a single cable set with three female RCA jacks (2 audio, 1 video) with no explanation in the documentation as to what it was for. So, like a dummy, I assumed it was line out so I could hook up the DVD player to my TV. Wrong, after discussions with the Jensen tech folks, I learned that it was actually the AUX 3 input for an external receiver . . . and all I wanted to do was to be able play DVD's for display on my TV and have the TV's audio play over the audio system speakers. The documentation indicates the capability is there.

The capability is there! All you have to do is remove the trim from the installed audio system, then remove the four square headed screws that hold the system in place, slide the whole audio unit out, and then install your DVD out cables to the clearly marked line out cables and your TV audio cables into the clearly marked audio input (AUX 2) cables.

There is an additional video line out cable so you can actually output to two separate TVs (i.e., bedroom in larger units). There is also a another line in (AUX 3)so one could hook up a VCR or similar device. There is an IPod input, and a couple of others that I'm not sure what they do.
 
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