Eclipse CD5000 help.

[Phase One 10+ year member]

I got my Eclipse CD5000 through Woofersetc.com today, and I went to install it and it won't turn on. I'm pretty sure I got all the wires connected correctly, and here's how I have it.

ACC (Red) on deck connected to ACC red on vehicle harness

B+ (Yellow) on deck connected to Yellow on vehicle harness

Solid blue wire on deck connected to solid blue on vehicle harness

Orange/white on deck connected to solid orange on vehicle

Blue/white on deck connected to remote wire for external amp

I have it grounded to the side where the deck sits in

Is that how everyone else hooked up theirs? Does it sound like it's a bad headunit? I have 2 orange wires coming out of my vehicle harness and one is solid orange and the other has a white stripe on it, and on the solid it says "Illumination" and on the orange/white one it just says "positive dimmer"

I even tried taking some wire to the negative terminal on the car battery to the ground spade on the deck and it still won't power on.

Am I doing something wrong here or is the deck shot? (Which I'm praying it isn't because I don't know if Woofersetc will take back decks or switch it for another one.)

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

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[dbaudio 10+ year member]

try attaching the ground wire to the harness or the car chassis instead of the mounting cage. The cage may not be attached to the chassis.

 

[Phase One 10+ year member]

Well, I tried wrapping the black ground wire from the vehicle harness around the spade on the ground wire on the deck and I still didn't have power.

I'll try grounding it at another spot, but after running it to the car battery and still no power, I have a bad feeling that this deck isn't any good. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[Phase One 10+ year member]

Nope, still no luck. I tried grounding the wire at this one bolt near the mounting cage, and I tried to power it on and nothing. I even tried connecting it to the car battery again and still nothing.

This is really starting to piss me off and depress me at the same time because it's looking like this is a bad deck.

I don't know what else it could be or what I can do. I unhooked all the wires and re-wired it 3 times and no luck. Am I missing something? And a noobie question but what's the little box that comes with it, for? (It tells you to place it far away from the RCA cables or something?)

And in the "Installation manual" it says "TIP: When installing the main unit, some vehicle models may require the use of items that need to be obtained separately such as a power supply adaptor wire, radio antenna adaptor wire or mounting brackets." What is the power supply adaptor wire?

Hopefully someone who has/had a CD5000 can give me some tips or ideas.

 

[Phase One 10+ year member]

Anyone?

I need to know if it's something I'm doing wrong, or I'll send it back to Woofersetc since I have a 1 year warranty on it.

But I've done some research and I can't find anyone having the same problem as me, so hopefully it's something I'm doing wrong.

 

[hornedfrog1985 5,000+ posts]

Check your fuses on your deck, and in the fuse box.

 

[Phase One 10+ year member]

Okay here's an update.

I got it working now. It was my yellow wire on my aftermarket harness not working anymore. I wired the yellow wire on the deck to the fuse box, and it turned on.

Thank God it works. I haven't had much time to play around with it, but all I can say so far is WOW what an upgrade. I read so many people praise the CD500 for the SQ and looks, and now I understand what the talk was about.

Thanks to all who replied with help.

 

[hornedfrog1985 5,000+ posts]

So there is a short in the plug you bought that goes from your cars plug?

 

[Phase One 10+ year member]

In the Wiring Harness adapter, the yellow wire apparently doesn't work anymore.

Everything on the deck works fine. I'm going to buy a new harness adapter, but till then I'm gonna wire it to my fuse box. Unless the fuse box is fine then I won't bother with purchasing another adapter.

 

[Phase One 10+ year member]

I've been using the same harness since I first got the car, which was in 2004. I've had 3 decks in it, and it just now quit working.

I guess I did something wrong while switching out the decks yesterday, or it just died out on me.