Well i have had this pioneer headunit in my car for about two years with my stock bose system and now i have upgraded my system 4 channel amp component speakers sub and sub amp and im getting static noise coming out of the speakers. I heard these pioneer headunits blow a pico fuse so i opened it up and did not find it could this be the problem. I have a DEH-P510UB pioneer headunit any one here with this headunit have this static noise problem or found the pico fuse. by the way i tryed grounding the rca's on the headunit and it did not work actually made it worse.

 

Yeah, I had to drop Pioneer completely after all the engine noise from blown pico fuses. I switched to Alpine and have had no more problems.

 

yea but the pioneer looks so hi tech. did you ever solve the static prob with the pioneer deck like service it or try noise filter ext

 

i did the same thing dropped pioneer and use alpine and try to sway customer installs to use Alpine as well


pioneer did come out with its stage 4 single din SQ deck which does peak my interest but that is way to much money

 

yea i was actually looking at that yesterday and when i saw the over $1000.00 price i gave up maybe in the future but i guess it has alot of options to tweek everything in ur system.

 

did you connect the power wire for the factory antenna signal amplifier?

 

can you explain that again

 

I would go with Alpine or something else if you can. The Pioneers are finicky and if you make one little mistake and blow the pico fuse they become a pain to deal with. You have to remove the battery cable when you do ANYTHING to protect that little fuse. It's annoying for sure and why I just stopped buying Pioneer units.

 

There is an antenna amplifier power wire that you need to connect to an aftermarket radio's amp trigger or power antenna ouput. I'm not sure what wire it is or color, but remember seeing this before.. sounds like you dont have the antenna amp powered up.

edit - Power Antenna green/white + radio harness

 

no that part i have hooked up the radio works fine. The problem is when i listen to cd ipod before the music starts i get a hissing static noise when the music starts it goes away but when i pause it i can def hear it. Or when there is no music just talking like an intro then i can still hear the static. Also when i change like from ipod to cd to radio i get a pop right when i hit the button to change.

 

$1000 is less than dealer cost on that deck and if your not competing in SQ , or you don't have head unit fetish ( which is okay better than crack) , than i can't see spending at least $1500 on that deck

 

on pioneer as long as when installing a head unit the last thing you do is connect the rca's, and when taking out the head unit the 1st thing you do is remove rca's then the pico fuse should not take a dump

 

yup thanks i learned my lesson the hard way hope everyone with a pioneer unit reads this before it happens to them cause its a pain