Cassette tape adaptor

A cassette adapter or car kit (English for car kit ) is a way to connect audio devices to the radio and speaker system of a car. Here, the cassette drive the car radio is used: The car kit consists of the housing of a Compact Cassette, which also includes a head instead of magnetic tape that is mounted where the read head of a cassette player picks up the sound. This head is in this case ( eg MP3 player or smartphone) modulated by a device connected to the car kit. The connection is established via a cable, which is attached to one of the shorter sides of the cassette adapter. In this case, the car kit makes use of the fact that the tray with this page protrudes from the device with most car radios. As the number of equipped with cassette player car stereos back, also decreases the importance of the car kit.

To bypass the auto-stop function on the playback device, which have more complicated adapter cartridge on purely electrical function also a mechanism to transmit the rotation of the capstan belt drive on mandrels: The movement of the winding mandrels is than most players used indication for a moving belt.

The term car kit is singled used for other mounting kits for cars ( among others for mobile hands-free and navigation systems).

  • Car Accessories
  • Audio playback device
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