Hi Gang, oh and where's a good place to get an ignition switched power supply for my new stereo

[rob hod]

  Hi guys,

    Big thanks to everyone who responded (you know who you are), I now know
how to get the buzzer working again (annoying but hey I've already returned
to my car to find the stereo blaring once already) and for the switched
supply have a number of lines of attack available and if it wasn't for house
renovations I'd be tackling it this weekend.. however the knowledge is now
in my inbox and thats what counts. In case anyone's interested the unit is a
Kenwood 39something (4?)  radio/cassette that at least fits nicely and
sounds ok even in cassette mode, and with a CD changer that I've not even
got out the box yet. The old blaupunkt was not even worthy of the four
modest speakers in the car!

 All the best,

rob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Huw Powell" <audi at humanspeakers.com>
To: "rob hod" <rob3 at hod3.fsnet.co.uk>
Cc: <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 6:10 AM
Subject: Re: Hi Gang, oh and where's a good place to get an ignition
switched power supply for my new stereo


>
> >  I've lately fitted a new stereo, and guess
> >  what, common ISO connectors are no way a guarantee of compatibility. It
> >  appears that the car side connector has no ignition switched 12V suppy.
>
> Typical for VAG cars...
>
> >  Can anyone suggest a convenient place in the dash area to tap
> >  into such a supply, rather than actually going all the way to the
fusebox?
>
> Well, convenient is relative, but on my 90Q (1989) I found a yellow buss
> thing that is the shape of an add-on relay socket attached to the
> auxiliary relay panel lower edge.  It has about 5 male pins on the
> invisible side (away from the driver) and is used for two or three wires
> that are... hot with ignition on.  So I just ran a wire from that to my
> radio.
>
> (I'm hoping installing it wasn't my idea in the first place two years
> ago, but I think it was stock)
>
> You can actually see it, far left about 1/3 of the way down in this
> picture (dashboard out):
>
> http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi/images/stereo-90-a.jpg
>
> --
> Huw Powell
>
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>
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>
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