Need help with Panasonic CD player

I need help troubleshooting a panasonic CD player from my '97 Subaru Legacy Outback.  The CD player appears dead, and I need to confirm what wires are supposed to be bringing power to it, so I can tell if I have a car wiring problem, or a dead CD player.  My radio and cassette player work fine.

This car has a Receiver/Cassestte player (Panasonic P114 on cassette door) which plugs into a single CD player (Panasonic P512 on faceplate, Model #H6240AS100/Reference #CX-DF1410FC on its bottom).

There is a relatively large, rectangular conector from the car harness which plugs into the receiver, as does the antenna cable.  A round multi-wire cable from the CD player plugs into a circular connector on the back of the receiver.  The only other wiring from the CD player is a pair of red wires (one has a stripe of green or black on it) which connect to the car harness through a small, rectangular, white connector.  The white connector is fastened to the back of the unit.

Here's the deal, with power on at the key, I can measure 12 volts across the two pins feeding the receiver connector.  I suspect, but don't know, that the red wires feeding the CD player from the car harness are supposed to be power also, but I don't measure any voltage across the connector pins (using paper clip to make contact).  Trust me, I know how to measure voltage, etc.

Does anyone know if these red wires are supposed to be getting 12 volts from the car ?!?!  If that's the case then I have a car wiring problem and will have someone check that.  IF they aren't the CD player voltage source, and power comes from the harness to the receiver, then I will ge the CD player checked out.

Thanks for any help !

My guess is those are the power and ground connections for the cd player.  You said your tape player/radio is working fine--okay so that means power is going to that, but there might possibly be a separate fuse for the CD player.  You've probably already done this, but double check all the fuses throughout the vehicle and see if any of them are blown.

It's also possible that something is wrong with your cassette/radio that's causing it to not tell the Cd player to turn on, although I don't think this is very likely.

Just so I understand you correctly, these two red wires going to the cd player  are connected to the vehicle using a white connector?  Can you tell where the wires go after they get to the vehicle-side of the connector?  What I mean is, do they seem to go to the same wires that are part of the radio's harness, or can you not tell?

In response to your questions:

1) Yes, I checked the fuses.  I eyeballed them all and tested the one labeled radio.   The fuse box cover and the owners manual associate one particular fuse with "radio", CD player is not mentioned anywhere else.

2) The two wires that feed the white connector on the back of the CD player are routed in the same harness as the wires from the main 14-pin connector on the radio.  Both my Haynes manual for the car and the wire listing on this web site are very generic and don't consider a CD player.

Troubleshoting the wires at the fuse block is of course a very difficult job.  If I knew for sure these two wires into the CD player were supposed to be power and ground, I would rig up a separate path, but if they aren't power cables, I hate to damage the unit.  I can't think though what else they might be.

I am going to look for a stereo repair shop that can at least do a quick functional/not-functional test of the CD player.  That may give me reason to go deeper or not.  Should decent shops be able to do this ?  I don't know how unique the wiring is to my car Subaru from other cars.  Myabe there are only a select group of standard interfaces and shops have them all available ... ?  Any advice in this area ?