Bose system

[Chuck Hurd]

2000 patriot concord 33
Can someone explain how to use this system it has a unit up front and what looks like where a Bose wave radio goes on the night stand in the bedroom, their is two Bose speakers on the ceiling in the kitchen and the three mini cubes in the front over the dash and a sub under the sofa. It came with two remotes that are labeled zone 1 and zone 2. My unit still works and the display you can see.
Someone please explain how all this works can you play sound on both zones from the same source?
The front unit is a lifestyle 20 . Explain how to use the zones? …

[Carl Boger]

Chuck,

I don't have a clue how you work the radio, mine was FUBAR when I got the coach and has been replaced with newer technology.

What I do have is 3 manuals!  According to the quick guide the rear, zone 2, can play the "lifestyle music center" using the buttons on the wave radio, or the credit card sized wave radio remote, or the lifestyle zone 2 remote control.

Maybe this will help you some. 

What would likely help you more is access to the manuals.    If someone can tell me where to mail these manuals so they can be added to the members only forum please contact me and I will gladly mail them to you so they can be added.

I don't need them back so maybe they can be forwarded to Chuck or just kept on file for those who can use them

 Thanks Carl

[Fred Brooks]

   Chuck,
One of the remotes operates the wave radio in the bedroom. I am pretty sure that is zone 2. It will also play the tv sound thru it by finding the correct output (scroll thru your choices on the remote). To operate the front, first turn on the switch next to the video selector switch in the overhead to turn on the amplifier. Next turn on the lifestyle unit with the remote. scroll thru your choices to aux 1. This may be the vcr or the dash radio? Read the owner's manual for an explanation of all the choices available. Mine works exactly the way it was designed by the factory and the sound is amazing. Fred

[Dave Grothe]

Hi Chuck, if you are still looking for information on how your Bose Lifestyle 20 System works, let me know. I’ve already been down this road several years ago. I have a 2000 Beaver Patriot Ticonderoga with the factory installed Bose Invisa-Built Lifestyle 20 system, which I eventually mostly removed, but it included the Bose Lifestyle 20 home entertainment system with 6-CD changer, 3- or 4 cube speakers up front, and two rear Bose ceiling speakers in the kitchen, along with the 2-zone remote (which didn’t have zones). Invisa-Built meant that there is a very large amplifier located behind one of the cabinets. Mine was right behind the front passenger seat, overhead, behind a screwed in wood panel. “Everything” that makes sound (except the Wave radio), goes thru the Invisa-Built amplifier. The Lifestyle stereo, the Bose dash radio, the front TV, the DVD Player, all go thru the Invisa-Built amplifier, which by the way, you cannot buy at a Bose store ( I tried). The 2 zone remote does not control the wave radio in the bedroom, so don’t waste your time with that. Bose only sold the invisa-built system thru high end custom integrators, and not thru any retail markets. If the system is still original, it relied on “timing” by the end user in the sequence of how you used it. If yo want to watch tv in surround sound, you can with the tv & Lifestyle20. However, if you then want to switch to the CD player, it required you to turn off the tv for at least 5 seconds before you could change the inputs. Additionally, you also could not turn on your Bose dash radio without turning on either the inverter, or the gererator, because your dash radio also is wired thru the invisa-Built amplifier, and by default requires 110vac power just to run your dash radio. Needless to say, I have since corrected this issue.
I know I came into this conversation late. I don’t usually respond to posts, but this one, I’m pretty heavily involved in from a lot of trial and error (mostly errors). You can’t buy this system any more. You would be a lot better off ripping the whole thing out, and starting over, with current electronics that aren’t 25 years old. That’s what I did.
Good Luck!
Dave Grothe.
2000 Beaver Patriot Ticonderoga

[Joel Ashley]

Carl-
 Eric or Steve should be able to help with getting your manuals into Coach Assist.  Its instructions ask they be submitted in PDF format. 

I’ve sent collected Beaver brochures snail mail in the past, and had Office Depot copy manuals that I wanted to keep the originals of, like our main Beaver Owners Manual or the Wiring Diagram book.  I even had them laminate the front and back covers of my spiral main manual to mitigate further wear of it.  Office Depot can put their scans on a disk or thumb drive that you can mail to a designated Forum administrator.  The O.Depot service cost may be reduced by using your FRVA (formerly FMCA) member discount, is reasonable, and saves expense and hassle at the Club’s end.

In your case, since you don’t actually need the Bose manuals anymore, in lieu of tossing them I reckon I’d just put them in a Manila envelope and mail them.  Chuck can then glean and/or copy them from Coach Assist;  or to help him a tad more quickly you could have hard copies, or a disk or thumb drive made, and sent to both him and the Club.

Joel

[Carl Boger]

Joel,

I will be happy to mail them to someone, just need a name and address to send them to.  I did e-mail scanned copies over, but unfortunately my scanner could only do on sided so they were sent as even and odd pages instead of chronological.   

My scanner that I used when working would have done a better job.

[Joel Ashley]

Been there, done that with scanner issues.  I’ve sent things to Steve when he was full administrator, and would guess it’d be Eric now.  But Steve’s job was divvied up between multiple members recently, and I’m not sure which of them that this mission would involve.  With patience, the question will be answered here before long. 😉

Joel

[Steve Huber]

I no longer have access to Coach Assist. I thought I had loaded my Bose manuals into Coach Assist but don't see a heading for them now In any case I have the following in electronic format;
 
 -Bose Home Theater Wiring Distribution (Beaver document)
   -Bose Service Center Customer Support Info
   -Bose Lifestyle Model 20 + CD Service Manual
   -Bose Lifestyle Model 20 +CD Parts and Service Manual

If you can't locate them on Coach Assist when logged in and want them added, let me know and I'll see if I can get someone to load them to Coach Assist.
Steve

[Chuck Hurd]

Chuck,

I don't have a clue how you work the radio, mine was FUBAR when I got the coach and has been replaced with newer technology.

What I do have is 3 manuals!  According to the quick guide the rear, zone 2, can play the "lifestyle music center" using the buttons on the wave radio, or the credit card sized wave radio remote, or the lifestyle zone 2 remote control.

Maybe this will help you some. 

What would likely help you more is access to the manuals.    If someone can tell me where to mail these manuals so they can be added to the members only forum please contact me and I will gladly mail them to you so they can be added.

I don't need them back so maybe they can be forwarded to Chuck or just kept on file for those who can use them

 Thanks Carl

Thanks I’ll text you my address