Electric gremlins revisited

[ternil@union.edu (Lyman M. Terni)]

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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