Radio while truck is off
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From: Home: Southern KY; Stationed: Southern California
That's a fuse right? I need to disable mine because its really annoying. I usually have the door open to listen to the tweets and make sure everything is going correctly. Or I have the door open while detailing and listening to musiac.
I do have a picture of the unit if you want to know which one it is.....
Champion
Joined: Aug 2009
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From: Western NY,
if you have amps wired up this really isnt the best way to do it anyways since you have to start your car every 20 mins anyway so the battery doesnt go dead.....
Last edited by Augiedoggy; Oct 9, 2009 at 01:33 PM.
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The circuitry energized by the constant feed wire is minimal and isolated from the rest of the radio. Basically, it's just the clock, station presets and settings memory. The draw would be measured in milliamps.
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From: Indiana
Touche.
You are right, I've done that before, but this must boil down to the rural environment that I live in most of the time. Hell, there isn't one door or window in this house locked down, and right now, all the windows are open. All of our garages are unlocked as well. All of our vehicles here are unlocked and the keys in the ignition. Now, before you call me a dumbass, I challenge anyone to try to slink down the drive way with out alerting the dogs to the fact that there is a visitor. If you make it past the dogs, I guarantee you wont be able to start any of our trucks up with out me or someone else hearing it, and you'll more than likely get shot in the process.
Not saying that when I'm on campus my truck isn't locked. Not at all. I lock that damn thing up tighter than a drum with sun shades over every window so no one can see in. I've never had a reason to install a security alarm, but I'm thinking the next truck will have one.
You are right, I've done that before, but this must boil down to the rural environment that I live in most of the time. Hell, there isn't one door or window in this house locked down, and right now, all the windows are open. All of our garages are unlocked as well. All of our vehicles here are unlocked and the keys in the ignition. Now, before you call me a dumbass, I challenge anyone to try to slink down the drive way with out alerting the dogs to the fact that there is a visitor. If you make it past the dogs, I guarantee you wont be able to start any of our trucks up with out me or someone else hearing it, and you'll more than likely get shot in the process.
Not saying that when I'm on campus my truck isn't locked. Not at all. I lock that damn thing up tighter than a drum with sun shades over every window so no one can see in. I've never had a reason to install a security alarm, but I'm thinking the next truck will have one.
moral of the story, dont **** with my family
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From: State College, Pa
So I wired up the switched and it worked at first. I put everything back together and tried it again with no go. Tore my dash back apart just to find it was a fuse. Replaced the 10 fuse with a 15 because that was all I had and now I have no radio at all without a switch.
Hooked the switch back up and it didn't power anything until the truck was on. If the truck is on and switch I have radio but since i have a dvd player it makes me enter the anti theft password everytime after its powered off. With the truck on, when I power on the switch I get radio and inside lights come on, turn off the switch and I have no radio and no lights.... I am confused what is going on here.
I guess I need to go back out and start looking around some more. I wired my subs up and amped my speakers. With all that wiring and my Jensen head unit I have a wire mess....guess I just need to start tearing stuff apart.
Hooked the switch back up and it didn't power anything until the truck was on. If the truck is on and switch I have radio but since i have a dvd player it makes me enter the anti theft password everytime after its powered off. With the truck on, when I power on the switch I get radio and inside lights come on, turn off the switch and I have no radio and no lights.... I am confused what is going on here.
I guess I need to go back out and start looking around some more. I wired my subs up and amped my speakers. With all that wiring and my Jensen head unit I have a wire mess....guess I just need to start tearing stuff apart.
