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My kenwood cd radio player cannot use remote control, only recently purchased this unit it is in a caravan it plays & works fine but I can't get the remote control to work & yes I have put new batteries in the contoller
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Cut the remote wire from the radio.
install a relay in line
the relay will have 4 or 5 terminals
connect terminal 87 to battery power and fuse it at 3amps
connect terminal 86 to the remote output from the head unit
connect terminal 85 to ground
connect terminal 30 to your amp turn on wires
this allows the turn on load to run thru the relay and not directly off the radio remote output
sounds like you have it hooked to an amp and have the blue power antenna wire instead of the blue and white amp remote turn on connected the the amp remote turn on terminal.
I was able to use an universal remote control that I have, a Radio Shack Kameleon 6 in one remote control which I was able to program to run the audio portion of the Kenwood KC 206 control preamp. By adjust the remote sensor volume to max, I was able to get maximum volume out of the unit and drive the power section very nicely. Now I have to get up and manually turn the manual volume control for addition volume adjustment.
Hopefully Ken can find a remote that he can control the Kenwood control preamp the same way I did. Good luck here.
your radio has 2 blue wires. one of them provides a 12 volt turn on for a power antenna (when a cd is inserted that 12 volt turn on turns off, because when a cd is playing, the antenna doesn't need to be raised up). The other blue wire has a 12 volt turn whenever the radio or the cd is turned on--this is the blue wire that you need to connect to your amp remote line. ( pull out the radio and switch the blue wires)
respectfully,
Merle
I fixed the sound problem with tech support from Kenwood. I had the blue wire from the Kenwood which is the antennae turn on wired to the amp turn on for the vehicle (2001 Blazer with Bose factory stereo). This is how I was told to wire it from the installation tech where I purchased the wiring harness. The tuning played fine because the Bose amp turned on when I played the tuner but when I played the cd or aux the amp turned off, thus no sound. The kenwood tech toldd me to wire the blue/white wire to the amp turn on for the vehicle so the amp would be on when ever power to the Kenwood was on. I rewired this way and everything works great now.
Currently you have the blue wire from your Kenwood head unit connected to the blue wire in the Chrysler wire harness adapter. You need to disconnect this wire, and reconnect it to the blue/white wire coming from your Kenwood head unit instead. You probably already have the remote wire from your subwoofer amp connected there; both wires need to be attached to the blue/white Kenwood remote output.
Your LHS is equipped with a factory amp. The blue wire in the Chrysler harness activates the amplifier, but it's connected to your Kenwood's power antenna activation output; therefore it's only being turned on when the tuner is selected.
This is a common mistake. This problem indicates that you are using the solid blue wire from the head unit to the remote turn-on on the amp. This is a power antenna wire that only receives power when on FM radio. You need to replace this with the Blue & White wire from the head unit (power control wire) to your remote turn-on on your amp. This should solve your issue.
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