Faulty Fuse or?

I have hooked up my Alpine CD player to my factory (1999 Mercury Cougar)connector cables as the directions off this site and whenever I hook them up as individually to the power to the constant, and the switched on the deck to accessory on the car I get no power at all. Yet once I switch both from the deck to the Constant on the car I get power but only when my car is running or in the on position for the key. I have checked the fuses and they are all fine. What else could be the reason the deck will not fire up. Any help and advice is hugely appreciated.



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Alpine 7830 HU-4X100 W McIntosh -2X110 W McIntosh-MB Quart Q's Mid Tweets-4X10" Phoenix Gold Subs-Phoenix Gold EQ215ix-AC Epi-PG Line Driver-Phoenix Gold 1 Farad Cap -Clifford Avantguard 4-2 Ear Plugs

It sounds like the factory wire's that you think are the constant and switched are not. You could test the wires easy enough with DMM. I would suggest buying the Metra or Scosche harness for that vehicle and make it easy on yourself. From what you said it sounds like your 'constant' wire is a switched wire, if it only come on when the key is in the on position. So the wire that you think is the 'switched' wire is probably a speaker wire or a ground wire then. Again, with a meter you could find out in no time what your constant and switched wires.

Jazzy

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Will need to check this out. The deck was installed once and worked flawlessly is the odd thing. Now that I have been making modifications its not working right. I will try and find one of the adapters as per above and see if this helps out but unsure what really changed in a couple months time.

Thanks again jstruckman for the reply.

Any other thoughts on this issue???

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Alpine 7830 HU-4X100 W McIntosh -2X110 W McIntosh-MB Quart Q's Mid Tweets-4X10" Phoenix Gold Subs-Phoenix Gold EQ215ix-AC Epi-PG Line Driver-Phoenix Gold 1 Farad Cap -Clifford Avantguard 4-2 Ear Plugs