BigRedGuy

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Hahaha, I'd forgotten that little ditty for resistor values myself....

Brianu, as long as they match you'll be fine...

brianu

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One more quick question. Is it possible that I listed the stripes in the opposite order? So could it be brown, black, red, yellow? Which would give me a 1 Kilo ohm resistor and the yellow could be gold which would give me a tolerance of 5%?

The reason I ask is because I am calling around trying to find one of these and any place I ask for a 42ohm they can't find it.

Oh, and one more thing. Does the actual color of the resistor make a differance or is it soley the stripes?

FYI, this is inline in the accesory wire from the wiring harness of a Pioneer AVX-P8DVD in case that helps.

Thanks

2 8's AKA Jeepbeats

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have you tried measuring it with an ohmeter? take it with you to the shop, to match it up with the correct one, and/or to get them to meter it for you, to see if it is blown.

zoomer

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With 4 bands
band 1-2 are values: 42
band 3 is multiplier 10 to the power of 0 =1
band 4 is tolerance. are you sure is is not gold?
a brown band would be a 1% resistor which is overkill in this application, unless they are buying millions and dont care. A gold band would be 5%
So this is a 4 band resistor and is 42 ohms. 1% or 5%

It is not brown, black, red, yellow, as there is no yellow tolerance color.

zoomer

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Maybe some more info would help. A look at the installation manual shows that this is a fuse resistor. It should be a black rubber/plastic bullet kinda thing. Did you take it apart to see what it was? Why was it blown? did you buy this new or used? How did it blow. The accessories connection only turns the unit on and off with the ignition and does not draw much power at all.
Have you contacted Pioneer to get a replacemnet? I suggest not simply replacing it with a resistor, but with a similar fuse resistor or a 1/2 amp or so fuse.
It really should not have blown unless really overloaded or something inside the unit is bad.

brianu

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After testing the harness with a multimeter last night it seems that the resistor is not blown and everything in the harness is working properly.

I bought this used and obviously got screwed. I can not get any sign of power to the player at all. The only thing I can get is a little flashing red light behind the faceplate and that is it. Unless someone can verify that I am hooking something up wrong then it looks like it will be heading to a repair shop.

Here is how I hooked it up to test if it is working:

Red (Acc) and Yellow (Positive) wires straight to power on a battery.
Black (main ground), black (ground from yellow positive wire) and light green (signal from parking brake) straight to negative on battery.

Like I said, when I do this set-up it won't do anything aside from the blinking red light behind the face plate.

Thanks for all the help guys, I am learning about resistors which may come in handy some day!

zoomer

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Have you pressed the reset button on the front panel? Do it with the accessories connection OFF.
I presume you did download the users and installation manual from the Pioneer website Right?

2 8's AKA Jeepbeats

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Yellow should be to your full time power, red to your ignition power.

brianu

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I have tried the reset button but not with the accessories wire off, I will try this. Right now I will try anything so I dont have to take it to a shop.

I do have one question, the light green wire for the parking brake, should it be to positive or ground? In the manual is looks like positive but I have been told ground. Just for testing do I even need this hooked to anything?

Thanks!!

zoomer

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The green wire is connected to the hot side of the parking brake switch. When you pull/press the parking brake the switch grounds the wire, allowing current to flow thru the circuit to ground. So, when the parking brake is on, the green wire is grounded. If it is disconnected, it only affects the screen, not normal operation of the remainder of the unit.

This is a standard way of connecting things in cars:
battery + to cuircuit (parking lamp for example), then to a switch, then to ground. When the switch is open, the wire will measure 12 volts, but no current flows, but when the switch is closed it is grounded, completing the curcuit to let current flow. The door switches are the same.