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Jun 1, 2004 | 03:55 PM

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ChrisB

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Originally posted by JohnnyToronto:
Yeah a wiring harness is good, but they aren't all built the same. As Chris B can atest to this, my aftermarket harness ****ed up on the weekend and some of the wires don't work anymore, I'm guessing they're really cheaply made and the connections becomes worse over time.

That was very interesting.. good thing you got that fixed in the 30 seconds you had

Jun 1, 2004 | 05:10 PM

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MR2NR

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The deck does indeed have a ignition wire, it is the red wire and must be hooked up. The orange / white wire is the dimmer wire, I usually do not hook this wire up in most cases.

Jun 2, 2004 | 11:13 AM

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Ettore Casagrande Jr.

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Use harness, but I would get main power and ground directly from somwhere other than the radio harness. Run a wire to the fusebox ... and ground to the chassis.

An Eclipse radio I pulled from a smashed vehicle at my shop's ground wire was all melted ... I can guess either a bad ground or bad headunit. In either case, ground to chassis minimum.