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Subject:Re: Voltage surges
From:David Beierl
Date:Sat, 22 May 2010 10:47:01 -0400

At 08:12 AM 5/22/2010, Steve Williams wrote:
>A classic ground loop, right?  The cigarette lighter plug isn't
>grounded in the same place as the stereo, so weirdness ensues when I
>run that potential through the Droid's power jack to the Droid's
>audio jack and back to the stereo.  No surprise there.

Dear Steve,

FYI, Radio Shack sell a ground-loop isolator -- inch and a quarter by
three or so with double RCA both ends and an adapter to change the
sex of one end.  I've had a couple, they work just fine.

Yours,
d