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Kas
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Initially Posted - 08/09/2004 :  08:10:19  Show Profile
In a previous thread, Dlucier wrote...
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">In your boat, you will connect the yellow wire to a constant 12Vdc with the red wire going to a switch on the power panel. With these connections, the radio can be turned off at the electrical panel, yet the station presets will be retained with the direct power from the yellow wire.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

Yesterday I installed the player in the boat - and for giggles put the red and yellow wire together. The radio worked okay but the CD player didn't work quite right. I fully expected this! My question is this. Can I run the red and yellow wires seperately to the +12vdc? My very limited understanding of these matters is that I'm supposed to have one each positive and negative wire hooked up to the battery - I would have 2 positives by running the red and yellow. Will my (and my neighbor's) boat(s) explode and sink to the bottom? If I need to run the red wire to the switch, what's the best way to do it. Or could there already be one running that way???

Ack! I'm so confused!!!
Kelly
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1987 C25 SR/SK2WK
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lcharlot
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Antigua and Barbuda
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Response Posted - 08/09/2004 :  08:23:09  Show Profile
The Red and Yellow wires are poth Positive. The red wire should run to the "Accessory" switch on the switch panel, the Yellow wire runs directly to the positive terminal on your battery, and it keeps the clock and channel presets "live". If you don't run the yellow wire separately to the battery, you can connect it to the red wire at the switch, but the radio's channel presets and clock time setting will die every time you turn the Accessory or Master switch off. The black "Ground" wire from the radio should be run directly to the battery.
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slickster11111
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Response Posted - 08/13/2004 :  21:15:14  Show Profile
Hi! I just diconnected the yellow "always hot" wire from the battery. It seems that notwithstanding a my hardly using batteries (and a small solar panel), my battery would be dead every 3-4 weeks. I guess the unit memmory and clock drained more than I thought. Since removal of yellow (and splicing it into a circuit wire with an "on/off" switch,) have had no problem
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