Electric gremlins revisited

[rocco_crossing@hotmail.com (Rhett Farnum)]

This could very well be a good possibility. I know that on most GM's you 
need to connect 2 of the wires out of the deck to one of the factory wires. 
I think they are the ingintion and illumination wires though in GM.


Peace Out,
Rhett
Rocco_crossing
'83 Rocco (autocross ready, 31 days till season opener)
'92 Olds Cutlass Ciera (DD)





>From: "Lyman M. Terni" <ternil@union.edu>
>To: Andrew Basterfield <list@cemetery.homeunix.org>
>CC: nicadimus@hotmail.com, scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: Electric gremlins revisited
>Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 18:25:39 -0500
>
>When I tried to wire the acc. wire in my stereo, the stereo flat out 
>wouldn't work. Try twisting the acc and batt wires together and running 
>them that way. Your stereo will run all the time, you always have to turn 
>it off manually, But I haven't had a problem with the batt. drain ever...
>On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 05:58 PM, Andrew Basterfield wrote:
>
>>One other thing, my Sony has a switch on the back to select between
>>permanently live supply and ignition switched supply with secondary
>>permanent memory supply.
>>
>>If you can see a switch on the back try flipping it.
>>
>>--Andrew
>>
>>On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 22:51:07 +0000
>>Andrew Basterfield <list@cemetery.homeunix.org> wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 17:36:12 -0500
>>>"Elijah R" <nicadimus@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Has any body had experience with blaupunkt stereos??
>>>
>>>My Scirocco factory-fit was a blaupunkt
>>>
>>>>I have isolated
>>>>the drain on the cars battery, it stops draining when I have the
>>>>"radio" fuse pulled. Now I have re-wired the stereo once, and it
>>>>still drains. blk- to gnd, red- to ign, and yel- to batt, as the
>>>>installation instructions describe, and still it drains???
>>>
>>>Drains how bad? It should drain a little to keep the insides live and
>>>the so the presets/time in memory.
>>>
>>>>Now the
>>>>radio has a strange feature, it can be turned on with the car off
>>>>and no key in the ign,
>>>
>>>This is the way my Scirocco came from the factory, the stereo is
>>>independent from the key. Yours may be different.
>>>
>>>>this feature has a 1 hour auto-off stated in the
>>>>manual and no apparent means to disable the function (using a hammer
>>>>is tempting). If I flip the wiring ( red to yel, yel to red)the
>>>>result is normal function but no radio memory for presets or clock,
>>>>while annoying it does solves the problem for me, however the
>>>>girlfriend likes presets and a clock soooooo. Anybody have any
>>>>advice on how to get my memory and no drain??
>>>
>>>Test the wires with a meter or a bulb, see which is ignition switched
>>>and which is permanently live, Wire as per the manual.
>>>
>>>You will not be able to keep the presets/time without _some_ drain,
>>>unless the stereo has it's own internal backup battery.
>>>
>>>Maybe you should be looking at a new battery or alternator? My
>>>Scirocco will start after a month or two, with the stereo connected
>>>and presets retained.
>>>
>>>--Andrew
>>>
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