radio stopped working
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Topic: radio stopped working
Posted By: catken
Subject: radio stopped working
Date Posted: August 25, 2011 at 9:46 AM
Pulled the radio fuse on my 2009 Colorado and put a meter on it to see if current ran through it with ignition off. Meter showed nothing .Put the fuse back in and now the radio does not work. The fuse is good.
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Posted By: DYohn
Date Posted: August 25, 2011 at 10:33 AM
Why'd you pull the fuse in the first place and how do you know it is good? ------------- Support the12volt.com
Posted By: i am an idiot
Date Posted: August 25, 2011 at 11:42 AM
Are you sure you put the fuse back in the correct slot?
Posted By: catken
Date Posted: August 25, 2011 at 11:56 AM
I checked it with a meter and there is current running through the fuse.
Posted By: DYohn
Date Posted: August 25, 2011 at 12:13 PM
You can't easily check for current flow through a fuse... you normally check continuity with an ohm meter. In any case, do you have a volt meter? Is there voltage on both the power and memory wire of the HU? ------------- Support the12volt.com
Posted By: i am an idiot
Date Posted: August 25, 2011 at 12:58 PM
That vehicle does not provide a switched power source. Did you attempt to install an aftermarket radio?
Posted By: ropuma
Date Posted: August 25, 2011 at 6:40 PM
If you need ign. run A wire to a yellow wire in driver kick panel check with multi meter .
Posted By: catken
Date Posted: August 25, 2011 at 6:41 PM
Stock radio. Pulled fuse. Checked terminals and no current to terminals.
Posted By: DYohn
Date Posted: August 25, 2011 at 7:21 PM
catken wrote:
Stock radio. Pulled fuse. Checked terminals and no current to terminals.
OK, not to belabor the point, but what exactly did you test? And with what meter? What was the reading? ------------- Support the12volt.com
Posted By: i am an idiot
Date Posted: August 25, 2011 at 8:52 PM
Why did you pull the radio out? Was it working before you pulled it out?
Posted By: ac0j
Date Posted: August 25, 2011 at 9:31 PM
catken wrote:
Pulled the radio fuse on my 2009 Colorado and put a meter on it to see if current ran through it with ignition off. Meter showed nothing .Put the fuse back in and now the radio does not work. The fuse is good.
This doesnt make sense, you PULLED THE fuse, and checked to see if there was POWER going through the fuse with it out of the car? Power is SUPPOSED to be present on the radio fuse whether the key is on or not. what ever you were doing BEFORE you pulled the fuse, and not telling us about, blew something out. Checkk ALL of the fuses, dont forget the ones under the hood.
Posted By: catken
Date Posted: August 26, 2011 at 7:28 AM
I pulled the fuse to check if current was flowing through the circuit when the truck was off. I was planning to tap into the fuse to operate a couple of gauges but did not want the gauges to operate with the engine off.
Posted By: DYohn
Date Posted: August 26, 2011 at 10:25 AM
If the radio was working when you pulled the fuse, and you did nothing else, and then you put the fuse back in but the radio stopped working, you most likely blew the fuse. ------------- Support the12volt.com
Posted By: i am an idiot
Date Posted: August 26, 2011 at 10:45 AM
Or you put the fuse in the wrong slot. There are empty slots in most fuseboxes. Look at the fusebox cover to see the location of the fuses. Make sure you did not put the fuse into an empty slot.
Posted By: catken
Date Posted: August 26, 2011 at 1:56 PM
Thanks for all of the replies. As much as I hate to say it, I replaced the fuse in the wrong slot.
Posted By: DYohn
Date Posted: August 26, 2011 at 4:26 PM
That's good news! ------------- Support the12volt.com
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