Genesis Needs a Longer Iphone Integration Cable

[Ruissimo]

Proprietary jacks are evil, I think it might be possible for the tech ambitious to build their own cable though, maintaining that jack.

I will say this: As someone who used to have the patience (and steady hands) for doing this sort of thing in my younger days, when it comes to audio cables, you split one open, you're likely NEVER going to get the same sound quality from it again. I don't know about this cable specifically... just putting it out there - maybe I'll save someone some money by preventing them from ruining a perfectly good, if short, cable.

 

[CamarilloBrillo]

The mini jack on Tech cars is in fact 4 conductors, not 3:
Left audio
Right audio
NTSC composite Video (!)
Ground

The video signal is pretty unusual for such connectors and why most are 3 wire as waveman noted. I don't have an iPod or iPhone so I don't have any suggestions on what extension cables will or won't work.

mpc

Any idea which conductor is which?

I might try to make one for just stereo for my iPhone using this (or similar):

 

[mikec]

AUX input cable wiring - tip to root:

tip is Left Audio
first ring is Right Audio
next ring is Video
ring closest to plastic body of the cable is the ground.

mike c.