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BEFORE YOU THINK OF READING ANY FURTHER, PLEASE KNOW THAT I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE YOU MAY
DO TO YOUR MINI. I'M AN IDIOT AND THOUGHT I WOULD HAVE FUN, KNOWING FULL WELL THAT IF I SCREWED UP I WOULD HAVE TO PAY FOR IT. IF YOU WANT TO BE AN IDIOT
JUST LIKE ME, THEN DON'T GET PISSED IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT YOU DO TO YOUR BABY. IF YOU DON'T WANT TO CHANCE IT, THEN TAKE
YOUR CAR TO THE DEALER AND PAY THEM $110 TO INSTALL THE OEM AUX PORT FOR YOU.
stupid disclaimers.. now
lets have some fun
Using Old Computer Parts to Make an Aux Connector
Being the big computer dork that I am, I always have tons of old computer parts just hanging around my apartment.
So I figured with all the asking around that I've done with certain people on the aux input for the H/K HU, I figured
I would see if I just couldn't make something happen myself.
Materials Used:
- Soldering Gun
- 2 internal motherboard fan connectors
- 1 Stereo audio jack (off a sound card or buy it)
- 4 feet of telephone wire
To start off I stripped the wire and connected it to the fan prongs, making sure that one of them had the wires
I would use for the left and right channels next to each other on one, and having 1 prong in the other.
From reading this diagram I knew that I had to make sure I had wire on the 3 and 4 pin of the HU, and one wire
on the 10 pin. The 3 pin takes the left channel positive, the 4 pin takes the right channel positive, and the 10 pin takes both channel's negatives.
(note the "C" section... that is the part I had to worry about)
Pin placement is pretty much a standard size (at least I hoped), so i figured that two of these would do just fine. I would recommend using fan plugs as opposed to any jumpers you may find on your computer equipment, as jumpers are usually one circuit and could possibly to damage to your HU.
This is the wire I used. Just some old telephone cable I had laying around. I liked it because it was small, double insulated, and basically a small version of speaker wire with multiple threads.
Getting this thing was probably the most difficult and time consuming to acquire. I had to "un-solder" it from an old audio card I had. (as you can see by all the old solder that I eventually cleaned off.
(Please forgive the amateur soldering, I'm a programmer, not an electrician.) The one closest to the jack is going to be your negative. The red is your right channel and the yellow is your left channel. Thats important to know for when you plug it into the HU.
Now that I had the wire put together it was time to head off to the car. I used this nice little FAQ from www.mini2.com
http://www.mini2.com/forum/faq.php?faq=faq_interior#faq_faq_removal
I know I was complaining that there weren't any pictures of the back of the HU, so here it is.
The far right of the image is what we care about. The white plug is the wire that goes all the way to the back of the car to hook up to a CD changer, and right next to it are the pins that I needed to use.
You can see the white plug on the left of this image to give you a reference point.
Plugging in the connectors making sure they hit the 3,4, and 10 pins.
And LOOKIE HERE, my make-shift "I'm a cheap ass" wire works!!! Always ALWAYS test it before putting it all back together.
And finally it's all back together.
Click here to see how I mounted it to the center panel under the toggle switches
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