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| mongrelmadness |
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Connected a pioneer Stereo up and when i turn my headlights on the stereo turns off and my acc. fuse blows.
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| data_mine |
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sounds like you're shorting the wire for the backlighting in the original HU. (which of course only becomes active when the headights/parkers are turned on).
Don't ask me what wire it is, cause I can't find my Gregories manual atm.
_________________ 1998 DL LTD in Sparkling Burgundy, daily, 302W, stereo, slow |
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| xtc*ba |
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datamine is right. Sounds like the backlight wire has been used for power.
buy a multimeter, circuit tester ( even a cheap one that has a point on one end and a festoon globe in it ) earth one end and find a power wire that has power when you want the stereo to be on ( all the time , at ACC key setting only etc) leave it connected and try all of your electrics, lights, heater, ciggie lighter, A/C. try it with the car running, ACC, car off. and be sure the radio has i single earth, don't share it with something else. hope it helps. |
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| turbofairmont |
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firstly what car do you have. the reason some cars do this is beacause the old tape/cd players have lights in them that go on when the headlights go on. had that problem in my laser. all i did was run a new power wire straight from the battery.
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| Pollux |
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My guess is that you have managed to run the earth off the illumination wire, cause what you are describing was exactly what I did in my EF.
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| RustyEF |
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Yes exactly what Pollux said, have managed to run the earth off the illumination wire, i had the same problem in my EL Fairmont, but was solved beacause of this, so this would be your best bet on the problem.
cheers RUSTY
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| mongrelmadness |
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Yeah that was what i did, just printed off the wiring colour codes of a document in tech docs. Thanks for all your help.
All is good Now |
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| data_mine |
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then, may the doof doof be with you.
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| pyroay |
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Age: 44 Posts: 2121 Joined: 14th Dec 2004 Ride: FG Turbo Territoty Ghia Location: Traralgon |
Pollux wrote: My guess is that you have managed to run the earth off the illumination wire, cause what you are describing was exactly what I did in my EF.
Sounds like it. On the upside at least you have now found the illumination wire so you wont have a mega bright headunit at night...
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