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+12V DC Battery(Constant)	RED / yellow	Control unit in left side of luggage compartment	17	20 amp	Junction box in front center of engine compt.
Switched Accessory	RED / orange	In-line with the starter relay	27	5 amp	Junction box in front center of engine compt.
Ground	BLACK/ lt.green
Remote Turn On(output)	BROWN / orange	Pin 8 of CD changer. Also light GREEN/ black between rear control unit (C388B-2) and front panel (pin 4).
Illumination	See notes *
Left Front +	ORANGE / lt.green
Left Front -	Lt.blue/white
Right Front +	WHITE/ lt.green
Right Front -	Dk.GREEN/ orange
Left Rear +	Grey/lt.blue
Left Rear -	Tan / YELLOW
Right Rear +	ORANGE / red
Right Rear -	BROWN / pink

Available Notes

Notes

Information listed in the harness section refers (in this case) to the rear control unit in left side of the luggage compartment.
* Illumination is controlled from the integrated control panel, thru dark blue/white at pin 2.
INTEGRATED CONTROL PANEL has WHITE/ red for battery input (pin 11), with fuse no. 33 of 15 amps in the junction box under left side of dash; BLACK/ pink for acc. power (pin 6), with fuse 22 of 15 amps in the junction box under left side of dash; RED / yellow for hot in start or run (pins 5 & 16), with fuse no. 32 of 10 amps in the same location.
AUDIO connections between the integrated control panel (front) and the rear control unit (rear) are as follows:
R+ dark blue/white wire between pin 9 of front unit & pin C388B-7 of rear unit;
R- gray wire between pin 19 of front unit & pin C388B-20 of rear unit;
L+ BROWN / light green wire between pin 20 of front unit & pin C388B-6 of rear unit;
L- WHITE/ pink wire between pin 10 of front unit & pin C388B-19 of rear unit.
AUDIOPHILE SYSTEM has right and left tweeter speakers branching to right and left front speakers with the same colours.

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