hardwiring sirius radio
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Topic: hardwiring sirius radio
Posted By: church_of_bass
Subject: hardwiring sirius radio
Date Posted: May 08, 2006 at 1:21 PM
hey gang, i'm needing a little help hardwiring my brother's sirus sporstster plug-n-play unit into the vehicle. I've hidden all the wires, and i've hardwired into the deck, but what i wanted to do is hardwire into the power system with the cigarette lighter cord. I was going to tap right into the cigarette lighter power and ground. My question is, after cutting the lighter adaptor off, how do i determine power and ground on the lighter adaptor wire? Thanks in advance!!
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Posted By: kirktcashalini
Date Posted: May 08, 2006 at 1:32 PM
the center pole popping out of the cig adapter is positive, and the pieces around them are the ground. Hope this helps?
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Posted By: tcss
Date Posted: May 08, 2006 at 1:53 PM
Make sure that the cig. lighter plug is not also a voltage step down. A lot of these Sat. radio tuners run on 6 or 9 volts. It should say in the owners manual or on the plug itself.
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Posted By: church_of_bass
Date Posted: May 08, 2006 at 2:05 PM
excellent. Thanks for the help guys, goin to do it right now.
Posted By: kirktcashalini
Date Posted: May 08, 2006 at 2:11 PM
yes, that reminds me, I needed to purchase a female cig adapter, and hardwire that inside the console, and wire my mothers XM into that because the default plug is adapted to 6 volt, and that way it can all be removed also. good luck :)
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99 Blazer LT. Yellow Top. Big 3. Infinity Kappa Speakers All Around. Jensen CD/DVD flip out. 2 Infinity Kappa Perfect 12DVQs powered by a Alpine PDX600.1 (in one custom box, building a FG box)
Posted By: ferretvw
Date Posted: May 08, 2006 at 7:33 PM
Most Sirius radios are 12v so the end does not need to stay on. It will say on the unit what the voltage input is, also in all of the Sirius units that I have worked with the positive wire is the one with the white line on it
Posted By: rallysport
Date Posted: May 09, 2006 at 1:45 AM
ferretvw wrote:
Most Sirius radios are 12v so the end does not need to stay on. It will say on the unit what the voltage input is, also in all of the Sirius units that I have worked with the positive wire is the one with the white line on it
i was going to say the same thing, ive found the white stripe as positvie always -------------
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