Just in case your wondering, they plug into the hot 12v+ lead for the radio, usually, off the hot side (12v+ constant) of the ignition switch. Try looking here first instead off the fuse box. Cheers.
T-Mobile, America's First Nationwide 4G Network Sent by Samsung Mobile -------- Original message -------- Subject: Re: [alfa] radio shorting out From: John Palumbo <[email protected]> To: [email protected],[email protected] CC: Just a quick thought. When trouble-shooting electrical stuff, there are two basic modes of failure I look at first. Sudden- electrical or physcal-electrical. The sudden-electrical would be like a fuse, total loss of juice, or the battery. Physical would be like operating a switch or physical device resulting in loss of juice or intermitten failure. In this case, obviously when you operate the column switch, there is a loss of juice. So 9 chances out of 10, my theory would indicate a faulty column switch, bad contact, etc. Try locating where the radio plugs into the 12v+ lead. Many times they use cheap connectors. When you find this, move the signal indicator slowly while you measure to see if there is voltage to this lead. If no voltage, attach the hot radio 12v+ lead to an independent source and see if the radio works. If it does, that means the radio is good, and the column switch is bad, or a bad connector or something. The spiders had a flimsy column switches with recycled plastic inards. Undoubtedly something broke in there or needs cleaning. Good luck. T-Mobile, America's First Nationwide 4G Network Sent by Samsung Mobile -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
