Pyle® Single DIN AM/FM-MPX PLL Tuning Radio Users Manual

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PYLE PLMR19W 


OWNER’S MANUAL 
Mobile Audio System 


























PLL Synthesizer Stereo Radio 
Automatic Memory Storing 


Preset Equalization 
USB Interface 

Auxiliary Input Function 
Remote Control 


INSTALLATION 





Notes: 


е Choose the mounting location where 
the unit will not interfere with the 
normal driving function of the driver. 


* Before finally installing the unit, 
connect the wiring temporarily and 
make sure it is all connected up 
properly and the unit and the system 
work properly. 


* Use only the parts included with the 
unit to ensure proper installation. 
The use of unauthorized parts can 
cause malfunctions. 


* Consult with your nearest dealer if 
installation requires the drilling of holes 
or other modifications of the vehicle. 


Install the unit where it does not get in 
the driver's way and cannot injure the 
passenger if there is a sudden stop, 
like an emergency stop. 


If installation angle exceeds 30? from 
horizontal, the unit might not give its 
optimum performance. 


did 


Avoid installing the unit where it would 
be subject to high temperature, such 
as from direct sunlight, or from hot air, 
from the heater, or where it would be 
subject to dust, dirt or excessive 
vibration. 


DIN FRONT/REAR-MOUNT 

This unit can be properly installed either 
from "Front" (conventional DIN Front- 
mount) or "Rear" (DIN Rear-mount 
installation, utilizing threaded screw holes 
at the sides of the unit chassis). 

For details, refer to the following 
illustrated installation methods. 


TAKE OUT SCREW BEFORE 
INSTALLATION 


Before install the unit, please remove the 
two screws. 


Take out screw before installation 





DIN FRONT-MOUNT (Method A) 
Installation Opening 

This unit can be installed in any dashboard 
having an opening as show below: 





53 mm 





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Installing the unit 

Be sure you test all connections first, and 

then follow these steps to install the unit. 

1. Make sure the ignition is turned off, 
and then disconnect the cable from 
the vehicle battery's negative (-) 
terminal. 

2. Disconnect the wire harness and the 
antenna. 

3. Press the release button on the front 
panel and remove the control panel 
(see the steps of "to detach front 
panel"). 

4. Lift the top of the outer trim ring then 
pull it out to remove it. 

5. The two supplied keys release tabs 
inside the unit's sleeve so you can 
remove it. Insert the keys as far as they 
will go (with the notches facing up) into 
the appropriate slots at the middle left 
and right sides of the unit. Then slide 
the sleeve off the back of the unit. 


INSTALLATION 





Sleeve 






L Key 
Outer Trim Ring N 
Front Panel 


6. Mount the sleeve by inserting the sleeve 
into the opening of the dashboard and 
bend open the tabs located around the 
Sleeve with a screwdriver. Not all tabs 
will be able to make contact, so 
examine which ones will be most 
effective. Bending open the appropriate 
tabs behind the dashboard to secure 
the sleeve in place. 


Dashboard 





Sleeve 


7. Reconnect the wire harness and the 
antenna and be careful not to pinch 
any wires or cables. 

8. Slide the unit into the sleeve until it 
locks into place. 

9. To further secure the unit, use the 
supplied metal strap to secure the back 
of the unit in place. Use the supplied 
hardware (Hex Nut (M5mm) and Spring 
Washer) to attach one end of the strap 
to the mounting bolt on the back of 
the unit. If necessary, bend the metal 
strap to fit your vehicle's mounting 
area. Then use the supplied hardware 
(Tapping Screw (6x25mm) and Plain 
Washer) to attach the other end of 
metal strap to a solid metal part of the 
vehicle under the dashboard. This strap 
also helps ensure proper electrical 
grounding of the unit. 


Note: to install the short threading terminal 
of the mounting bolt to the back of the 
unit and the other long threading terminal 
to the dashboard. 


Spring Washer 


Hex Nut 







Metal Strap 
Mounting Bolt 
Plain Washer 


Tapping Screw 


10. Reconnect the cable to the vehicle 
battery's negative (-) terminal. Then 
replace the outer trim ring and install 
the unit's front panel. (see the steps 
of "to install the front panel"). 


Removing the unit 

1. Make sure the ignition is turned off, 
then disconnect the cable from the 
vehicle battery's negative (-) terminal. 

2. Remove the metal strap attached the 
back of the unit (if attached). 

3. Press the release button to remove the 
front panel. 

4. Lift the top of the outer trim ring then 
pull it out to remove it. 

5. Insert both of the supplied keys into 
the slots at the middle left and right 
sides of the unit, then pull the unit out 
of the dashboard. 








INSTALLATION 





DIN REAR-MOUNT (Method B) 

If your vehicle is a Nissan, Toyota, follow 
these mounting instructions. 

Use the screw holes marked T (Toyota), 
N (Nissan) located on both sides of the 
unit to fasten the unit to the factory radio 
mounting brackets supplied with your 
vehicle. 


Side view showing 
Screw Holes marked T, N 





Factory Radio 
Mounting 
Bracket 





227 Screw 


7 


NUN 





To fasten the unit to the factory radio 
mounting brackets. 

Align the screw holes on the bracket with 
the screw holes on the unit, and then 
tighten the screws (5x5mm) on each side. 
Note: the outer trim ring, sleeve and the 
metal strap are not used for method B 
installation. 


WIRING CONNECTION 


































































































th Rch RED 




















Lch WHITE 





+ FRONT Rch 





SPEAKER 



































十 REAR Rch 


SPEAKER 














MAIN UNIT 
ANTENNA CONNECTOR 
[—5—— — — 

FUSE 
IGNITION RED 5 
SWITCH (ACC+) 

FUSE 
MEMORY YELLOW ыы 
BACK-UP (В+) 

ВЕАСК (СНЕ 

GROUND (B-) 1! RCA CABLE =a 
POWER BLUE 
ANTENNA 
FRONT Lech | |+ WHITE GREY 
SPEAKER 

WHITE/BLACK GREY/BLACK 

GREEN VIOLET 

REAR Lch 十 
SPEAKER GREEN/BLACK VIOLET/BLACK 














OPERATION 


LOCATION OF KEYS 


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OPERATION 





SWITHCHING ON/OFF THE UNIT 
Switch on the unit by pressing any 

button. When system is on, press © 
button (1) to turn off the unit. 


SOUND ADJUSTMENT 
Press SEL button (3) shortly to select 
the desired adjustment mode. 
The adjustment mode will change in 
the following order: 

VOL , BAS , TRE BAL FAD 








> (Volume) 1 (Bass) ро reble) y Calanco) p Faden 








By rotating the audio knob (3) it is 
possible to adjust the desired sound 
quality. 


LOUDNESS 

Press BND/LOU button (4) for 
several seconds to reinforce the bass 
output. Press it for several seconds 
again to release this function. 


DISPLAY 
Exhibit current frequency and 
activated functions on the display (6). 


AUXILIARY INPUT 

This unit can be connected to a 
portable audio player through the AUX 
IN jack (13). 


MUTE 
Press to mute the sound, press it (8) 
again to resume the sound. 


EQUALIZATION 

Press EQ button (7) to turn on 
equalization function and to select 
desired audio mode. There are five 
kinds of mode as below: 


> FLAT—» CLASSICS—> POP M—» ROCK M—> DSP OFF 














REMOTE SENSOR 

Point the remote cantrol handset to 
the remote sensor IR (5). Press the 
function keys on the handset to 
control the system. 


RESET FUNCTION 

RESET button (25) must be activated 
with either a ball point pen or thin 
metal object. The RESET button is to 
be activated for the following 
reasons: 


- Initial installation of the unit when all 
wiring is completed. 

- All the function buttons do not 
operate. 

- Error symbol on the display. 

Note: If press RESET button (25), the 

unit can't work yet, please use a cotton 

swab soaked in isopropyl alcohol to 

clean the socket on the back of the 

front panel. 


RADIO OPERATION 

* SWITCHING TO RADIO MODE 
Press MODE button (11) shortly to 
select radio mode, the radio mode 
appears in the display together with 
the memory band and frequency. 


e SELECTING THE FREQUENCY 
BAND 
At radio mode, press BND/LOU(ENT) 
button (4) shortly to select the desired 
band. 
The reception band will change in the 
following order: 


> FM1—FM2— FM3— АМ 














е SELECTING STATION 
Press »» button (2) ог << button (24) 
shortly to activate automatic seek 
function. Press for several seconds 
until “MANUAL” appears on the 
display, the manual tuning mode is 
selected. If both buttons have not 
been pressed for several seconds, 
they will return to seek tuning mode 
and “AUTO” appears on the display. 


* AUTOMATIC MEMORY STORING & 
PROGRAM SCANNING 
- Automatic Memory Storing 
Press AS/PS button (10) for several 
seconds, the radio searches from the 
current frequency and checks the 
signal strength until one cycle search 
is finished. And then 6 strongest 
stations are stored into the 
corresponding preset number button. 
- Program Scanning 
Press AS/PS button (10) shortly to 
scan preset station. When the field 
strength level is more than the 
threshold level of stop level, the radio 
is holding at that preset number for 
several seconds with releasing mute, 
then searches again. 


OPERATION 


* STATION STORING 


Press any one of the preset button(18) 
(1 to 6) to select a station, which had 
been stored in the memory. Press this 
button for several seconds (until 2ND 
beeps come out), current station is 
stored into the number button. 


® SCAN 


Press it to set the function to scan (23) 
mode, which scanning to higher 
frequency station with receivable signal 
and keep on each station for several 
seconds. 


MONO/STEREO 

Press the button to set the reception 
between mono (14) mode or stereo 
mode. 


WEATHER BAND SELECTION 
Press MODE button (11) to switch the 
mode to radio mode, then press BND 
button (4) to change the band to 
weather band. When enter weather 
band mode, tuner start seeking for the 
active weather band automatically and 
then stop on it. 

Press BND (4) or MODE (11) button 
will exit this mode. 

Press </p> (24/2) button to choose 
channel forward or backward. And the 
range of selecting forward or backward 
is CH1-CH6. And you can also press 
М1-М6 buttons (18) shortly to select 
CH1~CH6 directly. 

Note: The weather band channel 
frequency have been fixed in preset 
memory and can not be changed. 


USB PLAY OPERATION 


In the front panel of the unit, there is 
an USB interface (12). You can connect 
an USB driver through this interface 
(12). 


For the unit with no SD/MMC interface, 
when you connect an USB driver 
through the interface, the unit will 
search the MP3 files or WMA files in 
the USB driver and start to play MP3 
files or WMA files automatically. If in 
other mode, you can also press MODE 
button (11) to select USB mode. 





It supports the MP3/WMA file in the 
device, the operation please refer to the 
following instruction. 


SELECTING TRACKS IN SINGLE 
STEP 

Press << button (24) ог» button(2) 
to move to the previous track or the 
following track. Track number shows 
on display. 


SELECTING TRACKS IN SINGLE 
STEP 

Press M5 button (16) or M6 button 
(15) to select directory downward or 
upward. If the МРЗЛУМА fold does 
not contain any directory, there is no 
function of pressing M5 button (16) or 
M6 button (15). 


PAUSING PLAYING 
Press ьлі button (21) to pause CD 
player. Press it again to resume play. 


PREVIEWING ALL TRACKS 

Shortly press SCN button (20) to play 
first several seconds of each track 
stored in USB device. Shortly press 
again to stop intro and listen to track. 
Press and hold SCN button (20) to 
intro the tracks stored in the current 
directory. Press and hold it will exit the 
intro. 


REPEATING THE SAME TRACK 
Shortly press RPT button (19) to 
continuously repeat the same track. 
Shortly press it again to stop repeat. 
Press and hold RPT button (19) will 
repeat all the tracks stored in the 
current directory. Press and hold it 
again to stop repeat. 


PLAYING ALL TRACKS IN RANDOM 
Shortly press SHF button (17) to play 
all tracks stored in USB device in 
random order. Shortly press it again 
to cancel the function. Press and hold 
SHF button (17) will play all tracks in 
the current directory in the random 
order, press and hold it again will exit 
this mode. 


OPERATION 


е SELECTING TRACKS BY 


AS/PS/Navi-SCH BUTTON 


AS/PS (Navi-SCH) button is assigned 
as file searching button in MP3 file 
operation. 

When pressed, it is activated as 
selecting each mode of Digital Audio. 
"Searching track number" => 
"Navigation"from root by volume knob 
—» "Navigation" from current directory 
by volume knob. 


Searching Track Directly 

Press AS/PS (Navi-SCH) button for 
one time. It enters into “Selecting 
track number" mode. 

You can use the volume knob (3) to 
search the track number. Rotate the 
knob clockwise or counter-clockwise 
to increase or decrease the track 
number in a sequence. The 
corresponding track number, such as 
"TRACK 12" will appear on the display. 
You can also use the M6 (15) and M5 
(16) buttons to fast select the track 
number. Each time when you press M6 
button (15) or M5 button (16), you can 
increase or decrease ten track 
numbers. Such as track 12 will skip to 
track 22. 


Searching Directory or File Name 
Press AS/PS (Navi-SCH) button for 
two times. The unit searches file or 
directory from root by volume knob 
(3). Display will list all available 
directories and songs. Select the 
desired directory/songs by using 
volume knob and BND/LOU/ENT 
button to confirm. If the selected title 
is a song, it starts to play. 

If the selected title is a directory name, 
then use the volume knob to list all 
songs under this directory and select 
the title. Press BND/LOU/ENT button 
to confirm and start to play. Repeat 
the above steps if the newly selected 
title is again a directory. 


Searching From Current Directory 

Press AS/PS (Navi-SCH) button for 
three times. The unit searches file or 
directory from current directory by the 
volume knob. The current directory 
name and the currently playing file 





name are displayed (selected). The user 
can select the directory or file in the 
directory by volume knob.The selected 
file can be played by pressing 
BND/LOU/ENT button. 

DISPLAY INFORMATION 

Press DISP button (9) to show 
following information, such as the 
clock, ID3 TAG (if available: song title, 
directory name, artist name, other 
contents...) and other information. 


Note: 
* The main unit can only support the 


standard USB-memory disc which is 
approved by Microsoft. 

USB MP3 player is not a standard 
which means different brand name or 
different models have their own 
standard. So our product cannot 
support every MP3 player. 

When connecting an MP3 player and 
there has normal battery in the player 
(non rechargeable battery), you should 
remove the battery from the MP3 player 
then connect it to the USB interface. 
Otherwise, it may cause battery burst. 


е When in USB play mode, be sure not 


to remove the USB driver from the USB 
interface. 


OPERATION 





SUPPORTED MP3/WMA DECODING 
MODES 

The main unit supports MP3/WMA (Windows 
Media Audio) decoding modes as below. 














Standard Bit Rate (kbps) | Supports 
Mode 

MPEG1 Audio | 32, 48, 64, 96, | Stereo 

Layer 3 128, 192, 256, 

(44.1kHz) 320 

Windows 64, 96, 128, Stereo 

Media Audio 192 

(44.1kHz) 














The USB solution can support: 
1. Folder: 500 max. 

2. File: 999 max. 

3. Depth of folder: 8 layers 

4. Size: 1 GB 


CAUTION: 

When there are important files in the USB 
device, do not connect it to the main unit 
to play. And don't play the CD-R/RW disc 
that has important files in it. Because any 
wrong operation may cause files loss. 
And our company assumes no 
responsibility for this. 


SD/MMC OPERATION 

There is a SD/MMC interface (22) on the 
front panel of the unit. 

When you insert a SD/MMC card in the 
SD/MNC interface, the unit will search 
the MP3 files or WMA files in the card and 
start to play MP3 files or WMA files 
automatically. The operation is the same 
with the MP3 operation described above. 
If in other mode, you can also press 
MODE button (11) to select SD/MMC 
mode. 

When there is no USB driver in the USB 
interface, you cannot record to SD/MMC 
directly. 

When there are important files in the 
SD/MNC card, do not connect it to the 
main unit to play. 


SPECIFICATION 





GENERAL 

Power Supply Requirements 
Chassis Dimensions 

Tone Controls 

- Bass (at 100 Hz) 

- Treble (at 10 KHz) 
Maximum Output Power 
Current Drain 


CD PLAYER 
Signal to Noise Ratio 
Channel Separation 
Frequency Response 


RADIO 


Frequency Coverage 
Sensitivity (S/N = 30 dB) 
Stereo Separation 
Frequency Coverage 

IF 


Sensitivity (S/N = 20 dB) 


: DC 12 Volts, Negative Ground 
: 178 (W) x 160 (D) x 50 (H) 


: = 10 dB 

: = 10 dB 

: 4 x 40 Watts 

: 15 Ampere (max.) 


: More than 55 dB 
: More than 45 dB 
: 40Hz - 18 KHz 


FM 


: 87.5 to 107.9 MHz 
: 10.7 MHz 

: 4 им 

: > 25 ав 


АМ 


: 530 to 1710 KHz 
: 450 KHz 
: 36 dBu 


TROUBLE SHOOTING 





Before going through the checklist, check wiring connection. If any of the problems 
persist after checklist has been made, consult your nearest service dealer. 





Symptom Cause Solution 


No power. The car ignition switch is If the power supply is 
not on. connected to the car accessory 
circuits, but the engine is not 


moving, switch the ignition key 








to "ACC". 
The fuse is blown. 
No sound. Volume is in minimum. Adjust volume to a desired level. 
Wiring is not properly Check wiring connection. 
connected. 





The operation keys | The built-in microcomputer | Press the RESET button. 





do not work. is not operating properly Front panel is not properly fixed 
due to noise. into its place. 

The radio does not | The antenna cable is not Insert the antenna cable firmly. 

work. The radio connected. 





station automatic 
selection does not | The signals are too weak. Select a station manually. 
work. 








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