I'm magic.

[Lspade 10+ year member]

I have an eclipse cd3000 for my hu. I was workin on some wires behind it and turned the car on. To my surprise the HU turned on. I was surprised because moments before I cut the ground wire, meaning, the ground was not connected nor was it touching any metal. And yet my head unit still played music. WHAT IS THE DEAL? How is it doing this?

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[ramos 5,000+ posts]

Mr. denim has an older model eclipse that does the same thing . Confused the poo poo out of us . //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[phyphoestilic 5,000+ posts]

if ur antenna is plugged in it's grounding off that.

 

[Chevyaudio 5,000+ posts]

yup the antenna will ground your HU.

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

I've had headunits do that to me in the past.

Turned out that the unit being mounted (in its sleeve and bolted into the dash) + having the antenna connected created enough of a ground for the unit to power on.

Edit: psypho and Chevy beat me to it.

 

[ramos 5,000+ posts]

Denim's eclipse had only a constant 12v lead connected , nothing else . It was also in NDmustang's ( nick) hands, touching nothing . Wierdest thing I have ever seen . //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

Could it be arcing...but I don't know if grounds can arc

 

[phyphoestilic 5,000+ posts]

It's possessed

 

[ramos 5,000+ posts]

THat's what I said . It's got the devil in it //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[PatFitz9 10+ year member]

Eclipse head units can also do voodoo //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 

[Lspade 10+ year member]

Oook. That makes sense //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

We all thought it was the antenna doing it as well...

When it turned on without it, that's when we got creeped out //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[ramos 5,000+ posts]

I guess ndmustang65 is just a well grounded individual //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[dragonrage 10+ year member]

As opposed to a well rounded individual?

 

[Death By Bass 10+ year member]

Denim's eclipse had only a constant 12v lead connected , nothing else . It was also in NDmustang's ( nick) hands, touching nothing . Wierdest thing I have ever seen . //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

meh, not possible.