Audio Systems: Battery lead, inline fuse, fuse holder

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Henry,

 the problem is your 12 volt constant wire, i hope you used a wire harness adapter to ease the install and make sure everything wired up clean, now if you didnt that is fine here is a website you can go over your wiring on to make sure the 12 volt constant is correct www.streetdreams.com/wires .. now if you cant get it fixed hunt down the 12 volt constant wire and run a new wire directly from the battery to the head units harness .. make sure you pass it through an inline fuse for protection.. hope this helps you out if you need anything else let me know

thanks

Great, thanks for the speedy answer. Now this battery lead-- Is this something that I can do myself? And I've really no clue what an inline fuse is. Forgive my ignorance. Is this just something I should have done by someone who knows what they're doing?


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Henry,

  yeah its very simple, as long as you have located the 12 volt constant wire either on the harness adapter or from the site i sent you, go by radio shack tell them you need an "inline fuse and holder" 30 amp should be 5-8 dollars for one and they can get it to you its a very simple device, now all you need is a decent length of say 16 or 18 gauge power wire make a loop * if you have a side post battery* and hook the wire under the positive terminal bolt and tighten back down , then make a cut a few inches or wherever is a place to mount the fuse holder at and follow the fuse's directions just slip the wire in and tighten down each end of the cable .. then feed the wire in to your car up to the radio unit and splice, make sure you wrap your splice good with black electric tape and also make sure all of your splices are wrapped good...

thanks