Guest Don Gillespie Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 ok we have determined that the EDM will transmitt through walls now the only other question I had was do you hook it up to your computer the same way you would hook up a whole house transmitter I have a small transmitter that cost me 30 bucks I just plug into my headphone jack on my computer and it works fairly well but would like better distance so does the EDM plug into your headphone jack on your computer and work the same way as a whole house transmitter????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travis p Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 yup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travis p Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 i use a splitter so i can still hook up my head phones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Don Gillespie Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 t purser wrote: yupThanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travis p Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 bump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bisquit476 Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Just watch how high the volume is set, because the transmitter is supposed to use line out power. Here is a cool tool for testing, so you don't overdrive the transmitter, hope it helps,Bill Attached files 3154AD6Cd01.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeH Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Will this work for any transmitter or just the EDM?MikeH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfing4Dough Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 bisquit476 wrote: Just watch how high the volume is set, because the transmitter is supposed to use line out power. Here is a cool tool for testing, so you don't overdrive the transmitter, hope it helps,BillI found that using an in-line volume control device such as below worked well for in between my mini-director and EDM.http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2552561 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nurples Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 MikeH wrote: Will this work for any transmitter or just the EDM?MikeHI'd think it would work for any device that requires Line Out power levels. Since the LED is acting as a visual display of how much power your putting out from your headphone jack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Don Gillespie Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 bisquit476 wrote: Just watch how high the volume is set, because the transmitter is supposed to use line out power. Here is a cool tool for testing, so you don't overdrive the transmitter, hope it helps,BillBill thanks for the tip now all I have to do is get someone to solder this for me I haven't touched a solder gun for 37 yearsupdate just ordered the EDM-LCD-RDS-EP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Maue Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 Just got mine in the mail today. Got the LCD RDS model. The wife works in production at an electronics company. She's gonna have one of the operators do the solder job. Buying them a lunch is cheaper than buying a good soldering iron. Can't wait to give it a run this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfing4Dough Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 No skill required for this soldering job. I don't solder, but even I could do it. It took twice as long for my cheapo soldering tool to heat up compared to the assembly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBullard Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 This was just posted on the EDM Users Group:Often people end up driving too high level audio into the EDM units. This causes terrible distortion on the receive side making users to think that they received a faulty unit.Please remember that the EDM units require consumer level -10dBv line-level audio. The output from a MP3 player or PC sound card may be much too high for the EDM.Simple rule of thumb: If your audio source is strong enough to power a set of headphones or earphones, the chances are very good that you will end up with distortion on the receiver side.The simplest solution is to add a inline volume control to bring the range low enough for the EDM units to handle.http://www.dealextreme.com/p/3-5mm-to-rca-stereo-audio-cable-with-volume-controller-2650These are very cheap and comes with free shipping.EDM Team Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Don Gillespie Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 JBullard wrote: This was just posted on the EDM Users Group:Often people end up driving too high level audio into the EDM units. This causes terrible distortion on the receive side making users to think that they received a faulty unit.Please remember that the EDM units require consumer level -10dBv line-level audio. The output from a MP3 player or PC sound card may be much too high for the EDM.Simple rule of thumb: If your audio source is strong enough to power a set of headphones or earphones, the chances are very good that you will end up with distortion on the receiver side.The simplest solution is to add a inline volume control to bring the range low enough for the EDM units to handle.http://www.dealextreme.com/p/3-5mm-to-rca-stereo-audio-cable-with-volume-controller-2650These are very cheap and comes with free shipping.EDM TeamJohn thanks for the info definatly have to pick one of these up I wouldn't have had a clue if you didn't post about this so once again thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Roberson Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 Don Gillespie wrote:bisquit476 wrote: Just watch how high the volume is set, because the transmitter is supposed to use line out power. Here is a cool tool for testing, so you don't overdrive the transmitter, hope it helps,BillBill thanks for the tip now all I have to do is get someone to solder this for me I haven't touched a solder gun for 37 yearsupdate just ordered the EDM-LCD-RDS-EPSince you have soldered before you will have no problems. I had never soldered before and got the 3 solder points soldered with no problems. It was not all that pretty, but it worked.:shock:Hooking up the EDM to a computer is a little different than most transmitters that I have seen/used. As the EDM has a right and left RCA jack input. I see John posted a link to a connector that will work fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Don Gillespie Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 Paul Roberson wrote: Since you have soldered before you will have no problems. I had never soldered before and got the 3 solder points soldered with no problems. It was not all that pretty, but it worked.:shock: Thanks Paul I am going to give it a tryHooking up the EDM to a computer is a little different than most transmitters that I have seen/used. As the EDM has a right and left RCA jack input. I see John posted a link to a connector that will work fine. I saw John's link and bought one last night now just waiting for everything to arrive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcnamara9 Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 Can someone tell me how the RDS works with the EDM-LCD-RDS-EP? How do you get the text you want into the unit?Also, how do you control the freq, output level, etc? Through the LCD screen or do you have to use a screw driver like the FM25B?Last question, can anyone tell me if the EDM-LCD-RDS-EP performs better (in terms of clarity and signal range) than the Ramsey FM25b or FM30?Thanks in advance for educating me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Showalter Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 mcnamara9 wrote:Can someone tell me how the RDS works with the EDM-LCD-RDS-EP? How do you get the text you want into the unit?Also, how do you control the freq, output level, etc? Through the LCD screen or do you have to use a screw driver like the FM25B?Last question, can anyone tell me if the EDM-LCD-RDS-EP performs better (in terms of clarity and signal range) than the Ramsey FM25b or FM30?Thanks in advance for educating me.Take a look at the back few pages of the manual.http://www.edmdesign.com/docs/EDM-TX-RDS.pdfYou'll need to download the MiniRDS software for use with this unit...http://www.pira.cz/rds/show.asp?art=minirds_encoder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Showalter Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 I received my EDM-TX-LCD-RDS in the mail this week and have read in the instructions to use an "acid-free electronic-grade solder". I went to the local Radio Shack where they have...1. lead free solder2. silver solder3. rosin core solderNon of the choices said anything about being "acid free". Does anyone know which one of these solders would work best?Thanks, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amazn1 Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 This might be a stupid question, but can't you just lower the volume on the computer instead of puting an in-line volume control in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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