Geoff Schultz wrote:
"Bill Kearney" wkearney-99@hot-mail-com wrote in
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Any suggestions as to what I have to do to make this work?
Get a 12v DVD player. It's the inverter causing you the trouble. I'm
not at all confident that you'll be able to effectively eliminate it
on the boat. I've got a 12v player in our 348 Vista and it's great.
I actually use the AUX-in on the DVD player to daisy chain input from
an iPod.

That and you're likely to get better battery life using a 12v player
anyway. But if the player already uses an external power supply you
may be able to use a DC-to-DC transformer to adapt to whatever voltage
it needs. But if you want to just cut to the chase and get things
working I'd dump the AC/inverter setup and just get a player designed
for auto/rv/marine use.

-Bill Kearney

I've been through about 3-4 DC based DVD players and haven't found one that
compares to the AC based Sony that I settled on. The Sony plays everything
flawlessly. I'll work on it from the isolation standpoint. If the problem
is a ground loop, it seems that there's no reason to assume that the
isolation transformer won't solve it.

-- Geoff

Geoff,
Do other audio devices work with the stereo on the same input you are
using for the DVD? Maybe the problem is not with the DVD but is with the
stereo.
krj