I have no power at my cigarette lighter. All other functions work and I use that to power my radio antenna booster. need to find the broken wire (orange)
What fuse protects the lighter? I seem to have nothing else out. Thanks for the adviceWhat fuse protects the lighter? I seem to have nothing else out. Thanks for the advice
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Not sure why you'd force your lighter in ???, but hey I think if you look at legend for your fuse panel on lid ,it may say that the lighter is part of the accessory's group and so is the sound (pwr) booster for your radio , I think this is part of your problem , overheating socket may have caused a perminate wiring fault to exist in your lighter now
Check for power at fuse. If power is there a break in the wire going to cig lighter is broken. If no power than there is a blown fusible link by battery. Check fuses under hood also
Take a deep breath and start over! The best way to power this little radio is probably through the cigarette lighter or 12vdc accessory jack. It is simple and straight forward and no fuse box or negative ground wires to worry about. Go the Radio Shack, purchase an adaptor (cig lighter type) and hook it up to your radio wiring being careful to watch polarity. You may have to have your ignition on to run the radio, but that is much safer that maybe blowing up the unit.
Unless you are running a larger more powerful unit or an amp, there is no added benefit to hooking the radio into the fuse box.
If the radio turns on and functions with no sound, you may try wiring the Car Stereo Antenna Trigger Wire (some times called the power antenna wire...which is Gray/Green from the factory harness or blue/white from most after market harness adapters) to the accessory wire.
If it is a three wire electric antenna. The Ground wire is usually black. To find out which is the trigger wire simply connect the black wire to ground and then power one of the other wires, if you here the clicking of the relay you know this one is the trigger wire and the other wire is the power wire.
Hello,
First of all you only have the Power wire Red, and the ground wire Black to connect for 12v DC to power the unit. If you memory power it is usually connected to a constant power source such as the cigarette lighter or continuous 12V dc powersupply off of the battery. These are the only connections that should be connected to provide power. Since the unit will not turn on I suspect that the CB's power supply and regulator have been blown. Another possible choice is that the radio was working and someone removed the antenna cable and the the RF power amplifier malfunctioned taking the power supply and regulator with it.
To solve this problem, check the voltages on the wires before connecting them to the radio (these should be the 12 volt power off of the radio circuit, and the 12 volt power off of the continuous 12V connector (or the cigarette lighter). These voltages should read 12V.
Connect the CB with it turned off and measure the voltages (should be 12V)
Turn the radio on and check the voltages (should be a little less than 12V)
If the radio does not come on then the internal power supply of the radio might be defective (In this case I would advise taking the CB to a qualified radio repair shop)
I hope this helps
Thank you,
Shuttle83
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