I have a small Yamaha system, a CRX-E400; this has a CD player in one unit and an integrated amp in another unit.
There was a cable that Yamaha calls the "system connect", which allows the remote controller receiver in the amp to send signals to the CD player.
When moving house, I lost that cable.
It looks like it would be a 1/8" (3.5mm) jack, but I don't know how many connectors or how they would be wired up.
I contacted Yamaha's local after-sales contractor, and got a quote for a replacement part.
€3.74 for the cable
€3.50 for shipping
€1.42 for VAT
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€8.66 Total.
It really annoys me to pay that much for shipping, so I'd rather make the cable myself (if I can).
Does anybody here have details of this cable?
There was a cable that Yamaha calls the "system connect", which allows the remote controller receiver in the amp to send signals to the CD player.
When moving house, I lost that cable.
It looks like it would be a 1/8" (3.5mm) jack, but I don't know how many connectors or how they would be wired up.
I contacted Yamaha's local after-sales contractor, and got a quote for a replacement part.
€3.74 for the cable
€3.50 for shipping
€1.42 for VAT
----------------------
€8.66 Total.
It really annoys me to pay that much for shipping, so I'd rather make the cable myself (if I can).
Does anybody here have details of this cable?
When you consider the cost of packing, writing a shipping label, COD and postage, this is cheap! You have no beef (sorry!). E
€3.50 for a €0.10 envelope and a €0.42 stamp, I understand that the rest is to cover the time it takes a salaried employee to do all that, and then the cost of sending my payment to the bank.
If it was a €30 or €40 item (a Raspberry Pi, Arduino, etc), then I'd not be annoyed by the postage.
But when the shipping costs the same as the item, just about, I think my money and time is better spent learning and making something.
I forgot to mention, there is also a six to eight week wait… which could easily turn into ten to twelve weeks at this time of year.
My nearest TESCO supermarket sells leads with a 3.5mm jack on each end. Also ARGOS and several other small local shops, that's in a tiny town of less than 10 thousand people.
The point of asking the question, is that I don't know what the cable and the jacks really are… A simple two wire interface like i2c should be enough for this, but I can't know if that's what is used here.
It could be a 3.5mm mono. But in that case, the tip of the amp could be Tx, and the tip of the CD Rx.
It could be 3.5mm stereo, or something else (I've got some cables around that are 2.5mm tip and two rings).
Well I bit the bullet, forked out and waited and it finally arrived today in a jiffey bag.
It looked like a 1m cable with a 3.5mm mono jack on each end, so I got out the vernier calipers and the multimeter.
And really, that's all it is. 3.5mm mono jacks, wired tip-to-tip and ring-to-ring.
From looking at the rear panel, there is a single system connect socket on the amp-tuner unit, and two of them on the CD player unit. That makes me think that this really is a two wire bus, and that if I had comaptible mini-disc and cassette decks, these would daisy chain from the CD player.
Anyway, there it is: the information is now out there for anybody else who needs one of these cables and doesn't want the ten-week wait and €8.66 cost for what most of us could knock up in ten minutes with stuff that we already have in the parts bin.
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