ok this is weird, Ingition wire
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Topic: ok this is weird, Ingition wire
Posted By: DaGr8n8
Subject: ok this is weird, Ingition wire
Date Posted: August 03, 2004 at 12:23 AM
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
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Posted By: chevyman26
Date Posted: August 03, 2004 at 2:23 AM
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.
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Posted By: DaGr8n8
Date Posted: August 03, 2004 at 1:20 PM
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?????
Posted By: Charles_R_H
Date Posted: August 03, 2004 at 3:52 PM
are you twisting and taping the wires together, and/or do you have foil in the fuse panel as a fuse???
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Posted By: kgerry
Date Posted: August 03, 2004 at 4:44 PM
sounds like a blown fuse and you are metering residual voltage from something else on the same circuit....
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Kevin Gerry
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MECP First Class Installer
Owner/Installer
Classic Car Audio
since 1979
Posted By: DaGr8n8
Date Posted: August 03, 2004 at 5:03 PM
hummm, if a fues is blowen... there should be no voltage at all because the wire is jsut a strip not connected t oanything...
Posted By: auex
Date Posted: August 03, 2004 at 5:54 PM
Hmmmm, It still sounds like a blown fuse and it also sounds like someone needs to go back to english class.
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Posted By: Ravendarat
Date Posted: August 03, 2004 at 6:08 PM
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 awfull
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Posted By: Charles_R_H
Date Posted: August 04, 2004 at 11:16 AM
IS SONEY, LIKE ROCKWOOD, OR KENFORD BRANDS????
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ELECTRONICS RUN OFF OF SMOKE, WHEN YOU LET THE SMOKE OUT THEY STOP WORKING
Posted By: tylertime
Date Posted: August 04, 2004 at 7:13 PM
Sorry but that last one was FRIGGIN HILARIOUS!!!
Posted By: DaGr8n8
Date Posted: August 04, 2004 at 8:03 PM
lol, very funny. sooo humm dose ne oen know how to replace a ingition wire ?
Posted By: flynntech
Date Posted: August 04, 2004 at 11:19 PM
one volt is not 12.....so find the problem! residual voltage is more common with AC, but I've seen DC show a volt or so after an open. It sounds like a cheap multimeter more than anything. 1. go to the library or take some remiedial english classes (if this is your second language, I apologize. you are doing quite well actually) 2. get a real multimeter and/or don't over-analyize the readings. 3. all the time you have spent on this problem, you could have run a new wire from the battery and tapped into a good ACC in the column or the fuse panel and grounded the HU to the firewall or hump which is better than factory wiring anyways......especially to achive that 50x4 MAX power.
Posted By: Ravendarat
Date Posted: August 05, 2004 at 12:13 AM
Point 1 is funny and point 3 is bang on.
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Posted By: DaGr8n8
Date Posted: August 05, 2004 at 1:37 AM
its not the "multimeter" , and i will try to get better at my ingles,
so where do i fine the ingition area to put a new wire onto ?
Posted By: auex
Date Posted: August 05, 2004 at 3:40 PM
Run a fused wire from the yellow wire in the ignition harness(acc) to the red wire coming off of the deck. That will replace your switched power from the radio harness, you should also cover the current switched power wire in the radio harness to prevent shorting when you realize which fuse you blew.
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Posted By: DaGr8n8
Date Posted: August 05, 2004 at 9:17 PM
well then my deck would be on all the time??? im kinda confewsed... (if i dont have an ingition wire to turn hte deck on wiht)
Posted By: auex
Date Posted: August 05, 2004 at 9:31 PM
You don't wire the turn on wire to the deck to the "ignition" wire, you wire it to the accessory wire. It will not be on all the time, only when the key is in the on and acc position.
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Posted By: DaGr8n8
Date Posted: August 05, 2004 at 11:21 PM
hummm i think that that is the same wire for me , i have one ingition waire( and it turns on when the acc's go on ) and one 12 v constant wire
Posted By: defective
Date Posted: August 06, 2004 at 12:33 AM
ok..... tie a heavy weight to the radio acc wire, then swing it in a circular motion, count to 10, at the very last second before you finish, throw it at the ignition harness..... if this doesn't work now.... consult a REAL professional. If you cant find one of them, contact a translator.
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Posted By: DaGr8n8
Date Posted: August 06, 2004 at 1:25 AM
lol so funny funny american man ahaha
Posted By: Ravendarat
Date Posted: August 06, 2004 at 1:28 AM
First off he is Canadian, second off, if you cant figure out how to do it after the explanation by auex, go and pay someone who knows what they are doing to do it for you because the above explanation is crystal clear.
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Posted By: chevyman26
Date Posted: August 06, 2004 at 7:51 AM
Hey man - have you even checked all of your fuses yet? Be sure to check every fuse in the fuse box as well as the in-line ones. It's much easier to replace a fuse than to run a new wire. BTW - guys- I haven't laughed this hard in so long. you guys are cruel. hahahahahahahahaha ------------- 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."
Posted By: kgerry
Date Posted: August 06, 2004 at 2:56 PM
i'm surprised no one has suggested he just go buy the Metra 70-1720 and replace any already blown fuses in the fuseblock...this with be the simplest remedy for someone with limited technical skills ( i won't comment on his linguistics skills)
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MECP First Class Installer
Owner/Installer
Classic Car Audio
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Posted By: DaGr8n8
Date Posted: August 09, 2004 at 5:35 PM
thanks for the help , i dont want to see a profeshional i like to do things my self adn see how they work and what not
Posted By: kgerry
Date Posted: August 09, 2004 at 5:50 PM
nothing at all wrong with being a Do It Yourselfer... just go slow and make sure you have a fire extinguisher handy.....
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Kevin Gerry
Certified Electronics Technician
MECP First Class Installer
Owner/Installer
Classic Car Audio
since 1979
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