overriding power antenna switch
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Do you have more of a description for what you really want to do (such as you have an aftermarket radio and the antenna is going up, or you want it off because...)
I mean it’s pretty simple to cut the power antenna wire and be done with it... but unfortunately your question is pretty vague on what you really are having a problem with.
I mean it’s pretty simple to cut the power antenna wire and be done with it... but unfortunately your question is pretty vague on what you really are having a problem with.
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well the question was how do i wire it to go up without hooking it up to the radio i was wanting to hook it up to a seperate switch
turns out my motors bad though so it doesnt really make a difference now
thanks anyways
turns out my motors bad though so it doesnt really make a difference now
thanks anyways
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power antenna is the blue wire that plugs into the headunit, depending on exactly how you want it to work, you could either just cut the blue wire and it would stay down, you could cut the wire and splice in a switch between it, but that way you would have to have both the headunit and the switch on to put it up, or you could just disconnect the blue wire and wire it through a switch to any un-switched +12v in the car and then all you would have to do is thurn the switch on and the antenna would go up weather or not the radio is on.
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The antenna operates with a switched ground, not switched power. If you ground the blue/yellow wire in the stereo harness (with the key in the ACC or ON position) the antenna will go up. If you connect one pin on a switch to this wire and the other to ground, flicking the switch on will make the antenna go up and flicking it off will make the antenna go down.
If you want an aftermarket head unit to do this for you, you have to use a relay as they provide switched power to trigger the antenna.
If you want an aftermarket head unit to do this for you, you have to use a relay as they provide switched power to trigger the antenna.
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i thought it was positive 12v, on my old rx7 even tho the antenna had been broken off by the previous owner, when i installed the headunit, the motor did turn on as if it was putting the antenna up with the +12v, but my 91's antenna is just broken, if i want to listen to the radio all i gotta do is pull the antenna up.
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Originally Posted by Karack
i got lazy and just permanently grounded mine but it goes up every time the ignition is turned on...
*** backwards engineers!
*** backwards engineers!
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