"Milky" (jordanmielke)
12/28/2014 at 20:49 • Filed to: Crossfire, Chrysler, Stereo, CD
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"Milky" (jordanmielke)
12/28/2014 at 20:49 • Filed to: Crossfire, Chrysler, Stereo, CD | 0
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Damn stereo quit working at about the 3 hour mark of my 4 hour drive back today. Took the CD out and it was scolding hot. I guess this is the car gods telling me its time to upgrade to something with a iPod hookup.
Hopefully it works again in the morning and I'll just replace it at my leisure.
uofime
> Milky
12/29/2014 at 10:13 |
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you weren't by any chance blasting it the whole way were you?
hopefully your amp has over temp protection, if you didn't get any bad smell it probably does and you should be fine once it cools, alternately it may have blew its fuse.
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Milky
> uofime
12/29/2014 at 10:39 |
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I was in fact blasting it the whole way. But I've done that drive roughly once a month for the last two years and its never acted up before. It did work again this morning just fine though.
…. So with admittedly little audio knowledge, I'm going to assume the CD drive is going out. Might still take it out and see if the vents are blocked by dust or anything, and maybe get a CD player cleaner kit thing. Depending on how cheap it is.
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uofime
> Milky
12/29/2014 at 11:17 |
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The heat has nothing to do with the CD drive itself most likely.
It is all to do with the amplifier, when you're playing your music loud and for a long time, a lot of power has to go through it and that makes it heat up. The radio will have some kind of heat sink attached to the amplifier chips, typically you'll see a finned aluminum plate on one side of the radio, although it may be all internal. You can make sure that is clean and that airflow around it is as unrestricted as possible, if it's internal canned air is good for cleaning it.
However I would suspect that reason this is a problem now is that with your heater running the temperature under the dash is higher than normal and that means the amp circuits can't transfer heat as quickly.
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Milky
> uofime
12/29/2014 at 12:31 |
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Huh, well shit. I'll get in there one of these days and see whats going on /clean it up then.
Like I said "admittedly little audio knowledge", so thanks for the info!