Kenwood Excelon 969

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Topic: Kenwood Excelon 969

Posted By: JunkMall1984
Subject: Kenwood Excelon 969
Date Posted: February 05, 2004 at 4:48 AM

Here is the situation. I have a Kenwood Excelon 869. My friend lost his face plate to a Excelon 969. Is there any way to use the face plate for the 869 and put it on the 969?

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Posted By: AzianChill
Date Posted: February 05, 2004 at 2:10 PM

JunkMall, you will not be able to do this because of an added security feature on those units called EEPROM. Basically there is a chip on the faceplate that is programmed to work with only that unit. If you put your 869 faceplate on the 969 it should only open half way but nothing lights up. The reason it does that is so that installers would know that it's not going to be a power issue. What your friend should do is go back to the dealer that he bought it from and have them order a new faceplate and the shop would be able to program the blank EEPROM for him.

Posted By: lspker
Date Posted: February 05, 2004 at 11:25 PM

When you got the deck there was a little yellow card with the mannual, that card has the id numbers that Kenwood needs to get you a new "face plate", the plate will only work with its orginal deck.