Stereo Help!
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Stereo Help!
As some of you may know my issue I had with my stereo, well I still have it... Its hit rock bottom now. Basically my stereo shuts off randomly, very randomly.. If you care to read more into it, heres my other thread:
http://www.projectcamaro.net/forum/s...ghlight=stereo
The other day it shut off randomly on me once again... And has not turned back on... Not even the power lights. Im thinking the head unit is just ****.. Its almost 10 years old now, so its gonna be time to upgrade soon. My dilemma is that I am going home tomorrow, a 2.5 hour drive, and Im gonna have no music the whole way if I cant get it fixed on my own. I have today off, so I was thinking of testing some wires with my multimeter... I want to see if theres any power going to the stereo... Can someone help me out and let me know what setting to use, and where to place the probes to test it. Any other ideas or solutions are appreciated. TIA guys.
http://www.projectcamaro.net/forum/s...ghlight=stereo
The other day it shut off randomly on me once again... And has not turned back on... Not even the power lights. Im thinking the head unit is just ****.. Its almost 10 years old now, so its gonna be time to upgrade soon. My dilemma is that I am going home tomorrow, a 2.5 hour drive, and Im gonna have no music the whole way if I cant get it fixed on my own. I have today off, so I was thinking of testing some wires with my multimeter... I want to see if theres any power going to the stereo... Can someone help me out and let me know what setting to use, and where to place the probes to test it. Any other ideas or solutions are appreciated. TIA guys.
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man yall aint no help
on the multimeter just use like the 20volt settings.. thats plenty..
the wires you need should be yellow and pink/red for the positive wires.. and then you can just ground out to somewhere in the car or the black wire if you have to..
i may have these backwards but... i think the red wire is the constant power wire.. and the yellow is the ignition wire.. the red will always have power and the yellow will only have power when the ignition is on..
also you may want to check the blue wire coming out of the cd player.. that should be either your power antenna/or amplifier remote wire.. it is a power output wire instead of an input wire like the other two.. but it should only have power if the cd player is on..
let me know what else happens man ill see if i can help
on the multimeter just use like the 20volt settings.. thats plenty..
the wires you need should be yellow and pink/red for the positive wires.. and then you can just ground out to somewhere in the car or the black wire if you have to..
i may have these backwards but... i think the red wire is the constant power wire.. and the yellow is the ignition wire.. the red will always have power and the yellow will only have power when the ignition is on..
also you may want to check the blue wire coming out of the cd player.. that should be either your power antenna/or amplifier remote wire.. it is a power output wire instead of an input wire like the other two.. but it should only have power if the cd player is on..
let me know what else happens man ill see if i can help
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Have you checked the fuses on the driver side of the car? I shook one loose a few years ago and the same thing was happening to me. All I had to do was push the fuse back in.
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Hey guys..
Well I checked the fused on the drivers side, and i pushed them all tight, no luck there.
I used my multimeter, and everything (the yellow and blue) read 0.00 but when I had the positive on the red wire, I got a reading of like 11.56. This was with the ignition on.
Anything to determine?
Well I checked the fused on the drivers side, and i pushed them all tight, no luck there.
I used my multimeter, and everything (the yellow and blue) read 0.00 but when I had the positive on the red wire, I got a reading of like 11.56. This was with the ignition on.
Anything to determine?
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your ignition/ acc. circuit is dead if the fuse is good, then a wire is broken time for a toggle switch or tear the car apart finding the wire. Check and see if all the fuses have power also, you may find that that fuse is actually bad and just looks good (always test a fuse with a meter as they can blow in hidden areas)
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Originally Posted by archemedes
your ignition/ acc. circuit is dead if the fuse is good, then a wire is broken time for a toggle switch or tear the car apart finding the wire. Check and see if all the fuses have power also, you may find that that fuse is actually bad and just looks good (always test a fuse with a meter as they can blow in hidden areas)
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I checked the radio fuse today and it has power... I had the ignition turned to on, and it was reading 11.8 or somthing around there. Im still kinda confused as to what that means...