ZEN v plus FM adaptor prob

hello all, I have a zen v plus (obviously) and am very happy with it. it has more than enough memory for my uses and is ideal for me. Im not into the whys and wherefors of every detail of the thing as I only want to listen to music with it.
the one prob I have is that I got an FM adpaptor in order to play my music in the car, the adaptor was a chaep and cheerful thing which worked like a dream...for about 20 seconds before shutting down! this hapened repeatedly. I thought it must be dodgy and bought another make, only to find the same problem, it is my conclusion that the prob lies with the Zen and not the additional gear. has anyone else had this problem and if so, is there a remedy?
cheers

Which FM Adapter? I had one of the litttle belkin ones (the one that seems to get recommended alot here) and always had problems with it. It seems that to save power it "checks" to see if the unit was connected by monitoring the volume of the music comming into to it.
On my Zen Vision M the only way I could keep the belkin fm transmitter? from going to sleep was to max the volume on the Zen Vision M.
Off course doing that eats battery life and also is a little hard on the ears when you forget to reset the volume after unplugging the fm transmitter and plugging in some headphones. So first suggestion would be try turning the volume all the way up on the Zen V plus and see if that keeps the FM transmitter on. I have a feeling the auto sleep function of the FM transmitter is what is causing the problem.

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