Alternator Whine?

[Reeves360]

Would you suggest either of these cables?

Hosa Cable

Belkin Cable

Also last weekend I added a good ground to the cigarette lighter plug that goes to a bolt under the emergency brake into the body of the car.

It sounds like CTScott is saying to try to ground the stereo and the cigarette lighter to the same point or ground might help my issue.

Maybe this is irrelevant information but I looked in the Yaris manual and it states that the stereo is on the same circuit as the interior lighting and the cigarette lighting is on a different circuit. Not sure if that helps out at all.

Also I noticed that when my phone is not charging and while listening to music everything sounds great but when I plug in the power cord to the phone it almost completely cuts off the left channel and volume seems to go up on the right channel.

If I use the fader on my stereo to only use the left channel while the phone is plugged in I have to turn the stereo to max volume to barely hear the audio coming out of the left speakers

Suggestions please.

Thanks for the help all!

[CTScott]

Originally Posted by Reeves360

Would you suggest either of these cables?

Hosa Cable

Belkin Cable

Also last weekend I added a good ground to the cigarette lighter plug that goes to a bolt under the emergency brake into the body of the car.

It sounds like CTScott is saying to try to ground the stereo and the cigarette lighter to the same point or ground might help my issue.

Maybe this is irrelevant information but I looked in the Yaris manual and it states that the stereo is on the same circuit as the interior lighting and the cigarette lighting is on a different circuit. Not sure if that helps out at all.

Also I noticed that when my phone is not charging and while listening to music everything sounds great but when I plug in the power cord to the phone it almost completely cuts off the left channel and volume seems to go up on the right channel.

If I use the fader on my stereo to only use the left channel while the phone is plugged in I have to turn the stereo to max volume to barely hear the audio coming out of the left speakers

Suggestions please.

Thanks for the help all!

Have you by any chance tried plugging it into an amplified device other than your car stereo while charging it? Or, for that matter try plugging headphones into it while it is charging.