ok this is weird, Ingition wire

hey every one!!!! i just instaled my  soney deck in my acura 90 legend 2d. adn it was working fine i jsut had conected the wires nad not actualy put it in and then my friend was in the car adn was messen with it and like pushed it back onto sum stuff and now it wont go on, so i did the volt meter adn tested the ingition wire and it reads 1 volt when the car is on now... what hte heck is up with that errrrr (it reeds nothing when the car is off) so i dont really understand what is happing and am thuryly confewsed

is there a fuse in the ignition wire? are you testing at the radio end or at the cars harness? Look for any crushed places in the wire, and check the fuses in the fuse box.You'd better get me out of this lord... or else you'll have me to deal with. -- Hunter S. Thompson "F.A.L.I.L.V."

ok, im thinken that it would not matter how big aroun the wire is because if it was large or small 12 volts should be goen throught right?????

are you twisting and taping the wires together, and/or do you have foil in the fuse panel as a fuse???electronics run off of smoke, when you let the smoke out they stop working

sounds like a blown fuse and you are metering residual voltage from something else on the same circuit....Kevin Gerry

Certified Electronics Technician

MECP First Class Installer

Owner/Installer

Classic Car Audio

since 1979

hummm, if a fues is blowen... there should be no voltage at all because the wire is jsut a strip not connected t oanything...

Hmmmm, It still sounds like a blown fuse and it also sounds like someone needs to go back to english class. Certified Security Specialist

Always check info with a digital multimeter.

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Tell Darwin I sent you.

I've been sick lately, sorry I won't be on much.

If a  fuse is blown as kgerry said there can still be residual voltage from other things in line. And man that first post was really hard to read, im not a  great typist but that was damn awfulldouble-secret reverse-osmosis speaker-cone-induced high-level interference distortion, Its a killer

IS SONEY, LIKE ROCKWOOD, OR KENFORD BRANDS????electronics run off of smoke, when you let the smoke out they stop working