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| Jakel123 |
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hey all, when i turn my lights on my stereo makes a scrambled noise and then after a few secs my head unit goes into protect mode. this has happened with both head units i have had. i used a multimeter and checked the earth wire on the unit is okay. has anyone had this problem and does anyone know the solution?
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| Bilko |
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just when you turn the lights on?
could be something to do with the dimming feature of the headunit? incorrect wire connected maybe
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| philfree |
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i would check your earth with the lights on. because its common for the earth in the headunit to be connected to the parklights because it's earth until the lights are on
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| Jakel123 |
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{USERNAME} wrote: i would check your earth with the lights on. because its common for the earth in the headunit to be connected to the parklights because it's earth until the lights are on ok found out what it was, the tossers who installed the headunit before. that is, the previous owners of the car, ran the rear speaker signal wires right along side the rear driving lights power cable. |
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| Stone |
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Speaker wire levels are to high to get the massive interference you mentioned from having a power wire next to them and there's no way a wire running near it would cause protection mode.
philfree is onto it... A lot of people measure the dimmer wire (dash lights) as 0v because no one wires a stereo up with the lights off... Then when they turn the lights on, the wire that is meant to be ground suddenly changes to 12v and the head unit shuts off or gets toasted. |
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| philfree |
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yer well i work at an auto elec and the amount of times we have repaired dodged up headunit instals
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| Jakel123 |
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{USERNAME} wrote: Speaker wire levels are to high to get the massive interference you mentioned from having a power wire next to them and there's no way a wire running near it would cause protection mode. philfree is onto it... A lot of people measure the dimmer wire (dash lights) as 0v because no one wires a stereo up with the lights off... Then when they turn the lights on, the wire that is meant to be ground suddenly changes to 12v and the head unit shuts off or gets toasted. well i ran the cables separate from each other and the problem wasnt there anymore so thats what i assumed it was |
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{USERNAME} wrote: {USERNAME} wrote: Speaker wire levels are to high to get the massive interference you mentioned from having a power wire next to them and there's no way a wire running near it would cause protection mode. philfree is onto it... A lot of people measure the dimmer wire (dash lights) as 0v because no one wires a stereo up with the lights off... Then when they turn the lights on, the wire that is meant to be ground suddenly changes to 12v and the head unit shuts off or gets toasted. well i ran the cables separate from each other and the problem wasnt there anymore so thats what i assumed it was You must have a bad contact somewhere then because electromagnetic interference to a speaker wire cannot cause a head unit to go into protection mode. |
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