Hi Patrick,

Just two quick questions directly, since I can't seem to get to pcats.co.uk - is the tuner compatible with the Mark I, and does it do AM as well as FM? I'm getting a new car and my partner wants AM radio for her favourite news and current affairs radio; I can talk her out of having a CD player in the car, but giving up radio is impossible.

Thanks in advance,

Paul

Patrick's tuner is AM/FM but it cannot connect to the Mark 1. It is for the Mark 2/2a only.

Blast.

That means I'll have to have a second head unit in the car. Grrrrrrrrr. I must not fly into an insane rage I must not fly into an insane rage I must not fly into an insane rage I must not fly to in an insane rage ...

Paul

...or upgrade to a Mark2...

<ducks for cover>

Got my email from Patrick today!!
My tuner is ready!!

I was #123 for those who are wondering.

Sweet, want me to build it for you?

How much?

Well, I could do it for $50.00 plus shipping if you are interested.

Anyone know how much bigger in size Patrick's tuner is from the original Rio stock tuner?

b

Width and depth is about the same, but the box is taller - not sure quite how much...
My pca tuner is since about 2 weeks living in the dash of my new Peugeot - I was pleasantly surpised by the amount of space below and to the sides of the DIN slot, so I decided to use the kit tuner and put the original tuner in storage.
The kit tuner would not easily have fit in my Polo...

Anyway, the original tuner is ~33-34 mm tall (roughly 1 5/16") and I believe (from a highly defective memory) that the kit tuner is somewhere between 60 and 70 mm tall

You could of course with a bit of modification put it into a flatter but longer box if you place the circuit boards side by side, instead of stacked on top of each other.

/Michael

thanks Michael,
I currently have a kenwood tuner/cd player along with my Empeg. i was considering getting a pcats tuner and ditching my kenwood . but the pcats tuner looks huge, and not sure if it will fit. i dont have a lotta room in my montero behind the dash.

b

Hey, I'm reading this thread just now!! Yes, it's NT2000. I know he had more than one tuner, at least one of which was an original one.

He lent me a PCATS Tuner for testing, and it's the one I had problems with, and that I discussed about in a thread in the Generic Forum.

Also, I don't know if that's the tuner he is actually selling, but I shipped that tuner back to him this morning, since I don't have the time to investigate why I am having the problems mentioned above. (I'd rather find an original empeg tuner or have my old one fixed. My installer says rust can be removed and tuner cleaned. We just need some time to do so).

#121 arrived in good shape, and is 90% completed.

I must give props to pca. The kit and instructions are very well thought out. It took two sessions after work to complete it. (my eyes were going cross-eyed after a day at work). About 3 hrs total.
The only downside is I misplaced one of the VN02N transistors. Must have been when I was showing the kit to friends/coworkers. I'll be ordering a replacement from mouser.com on monday. :-\

Speaking of buying replacement parts, anyone know what I should replace one of the 10pF ceramic capacitors with? (C10,C11,C13,C14) Looking at mouser.com, I see 581-SA102A100J, and 581-SA102A100KAA, but would these be correct (and which one?) replacements? Thanks in advance..