Question about installing stereo

mob · Aug 17, 2009

Hey guys, I am trying to get this radio to work. I know the cd player is good because it works in my other car. I cannot use a wiring harness because the wires are all cut up by the previous owner.

Using a diagram I pretty much tracked down what each wire is. Now here is my problem. When I got the power stuf hooked up, when i turn the key on, the radio face will turn on and show the time, but when I push any button it shuts off and wont turn back on again.

With nothing hooked up and the key on I have about 11v at the ignition wire, and 11v at the battery wire. Now when I hook up the wires to the cd player, with the key on I have about 11 volts at the ignition wire, and only 7v at the battery wire, this is when the clock turns on the face of the cd player. When I push a button and the cd player turns off I only get 2v at the battery wire. There are fuses on both 12v wires before the cd player and both fuses are good. I know my ground is good because I was using that for the voltmeter. Should I just run a wire straight to the battery? I dont know why the volts on that wire drop only when I hook it up to the cd player.

302GTS · Aug 17, 2009

mob said:
Hey guys, I am trying to get this radio to work. I know the cd player is good because it works in my other car. I cannot use a wiring harness because the wires are all cut up by the previous owner.

Using a diagram I pretty much tracked down what each wire is. Now here is my problem. When I got the power stuf hooked up, when i turn the key on, the radio face will turn on and show the time, but when I push any button it shuts off and wont turn back on again.

With nothing hooked up and the key on I have about 11v at the ignition wire, and 11v at the battery wire. Now when I hook up the wires to the cd player, with the key on I have about 11 volts at the ignition wire, and only 7v at the battery wire, this is when the clock turns on the face of the cd player. When I push a button and the cd player turns off I only get 2v at the battery wire. There are fuses on both 12v wires before the cd player and both fuses are good. I know my ground is good because I was using that for the voltmeter. Should I just run a wire straight to the battery? I dont know why the volts on that wire drop only when I hook it up to the cd player.

I'm running 2 10" subs with a 1,000 watts into each sub. I've got my power wires running straight to the battery, however I've also got multiple fuses in the amp, and a capacitor in the mix also.

mob · Aug 17, 2009

Ok, not to be a dick, but that doesnt help me much, you've got power running to your battery to run your amp, that's how your supposed to do it. In my case I should be able to hook up the power cable to the factory power cable and have the radio turn on. I know I CAN run a wire to my battery but I dont know if that will fix my problem and wont tell me what the problem is in the first place.

The only other thing I could think of is that the factory power cable to to high of a gauge and I need to just run a bigger wire from the cd player to the battery. Is that a possibility if the wire is too small it wont push as many volts as I need?

mob · Aug 17, 2009

nvm i got it

Dachipsta · Aug 18, 2009

Just out of curiosity, what did that turn out to be? I was kinda thinking that all you had powered up on the head unit was the yellow or memory power. That would posibly give you a display but thats about it. How about a bad or no ground? Reason I'm asking is that I was having some issues with my kenwood when I first installed it and it wound up being a wiring cluster---f--k with the connectors to the factor wiring. It had a floating ground to the head unit and all speakers. I had to just bypass all the factory BS and rewire everything. Pulled all new wire to all 6 speakers and only used hot and memory 12v plus a chassis ground to head unit.

FWIW, I am running two diamond 12's with a diamond 500 watt mono plus a Fosgate 500 4 channel to the 6 other speakers.

Just to put this out there......Some folks have debated about what kind of 3.5's that are in the dash location. I found some nice Infinty 4" with the soft dome tweeters and they arent nearly as harsh as the speakers that have the hard dome tweeters. I had some Boston 3.5's in there with the hard domes and I couldnt stand them. I then tried just some little 2" tweeters and it was way to much high end that I couldnt eq it at all to make it sound decent. Then I found the Infinity's in the local junk yard believe it or not, picked them up for 15 bucks, installed them and whalla! Man, the difference was like night and day. The soft domes where the way to go.

I know the OP may care less about all this but I just felt all nice and fuzzy this morning and figured I would just throw all this out there that maybe someone would find it interesting maybe?.....hahahaha.....l8r

stykthyn · Aug 18, 2009

I had that prob with a kenwood I bought once, turned out to be an anti-theft thingy. I had to call kenwwood and get a code to punch in

mob · Aug 18, 2009

Well mine was an el cheapo cd player. The mem wire coming out of the radio was just too big for the stock wiring. I ran a 14ga wire from the cd player straight to the battery and it works fine. If you dont want a wire running to the battery I would look for another power wire like the cig lighter, just make sure the wire is big enough.

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