Oh by the way, I too have a lightly used Geo Metro Tracker 1996 in Glen Burnie Md that is going on the market soon. 4 wheel drive, etc. Still gas though... Bob
On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 8:19 PM Bill Dube via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > Radio, particularly AM, is a lost cause on home conversions. The EMI and > RFI is just to difficult for the home converter to deal with. Takes > serious and time consuming work on shielding and filtering of the EV > components and wiring to get it down to a level where you can listen to > an ordinary AM radio. > Even the early OEM EV's did not do well on the AM stations. I suspect > that the AM radios in EV's are somewhat special. > > My best suggestion to this issue is to listen to a podcast on your phone. > > Bill D. > > On 10/14/2021 12:48 PM, nathan christiansn via EV wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > > > I have a Geo Metro that I converted electric and the radio has never been > > able to pick up more than one station because of all the noise the dc-dc > > converter outputs. I have been able to verify that the noise is being > > picked up through the 12 volt input of the radio and not through the > > antenna. I have tried putting a large line-voltage EMI filter on the output > > of the dc-dc converter and it did not do anything. I also tried putting a > > large capacitor on the output and experienced similar results. > > > > Is there anyone out there who has had a similar issue and found a solution? > > Any ideas would be appreciated. > > > > Nathan > > -------------- next part -------------- > > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > > URL: > > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20211013/4079cbce/attachment.html> > > _______________________________________________ > > Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org > > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ > > LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ > LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
