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mrtasty17

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Posted: August 07, 2008 at 3:33 PM / IP Logged

I installed the alpine ida-x100 in my 2006 f150 supercab. I bought the wiring harness and hooked everything up right. It seems to work except one very weird thing...it only powers on when the headlights are on. Does anyone know why it would do this? the dimmer and ignition wires are not backwards.

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Troy

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joch1314

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Posted: August 07, 2008 at 4:04 PM / IP Logged

Sounds to me that your wires are backwards. You may have wired it up right, but the actual vehicle harness is backwards. Put a voltmeter to your accessory wire and see what you get. You'll more than likely get 12 volts when the lights are on and 0 volts when the lights are off.

The actual vehicle accessory wire should be either GREEN/ YELLOW, or BLACK/ pink. Find the wire thats 12 volts in ACC and ON positions (lights on or off)

Just curious, does the radio turn on even when the key is not in the ignition and you have the lights on?

...half of the truth can be worse than a lie. <----Roger Russell said that..

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mrtasty17

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Posted: August 07, 2008 at 4:55 PM / IP Logged

yea with the key out, it will turn on when the lights are on.

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Posted: August 08, 2008 at 12:50 AM / IP Logged

Then your wires are backwards. No question about it.

It all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."

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