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CarAudio.com Elite
Just curious before I give a friend of a friend some bad news about their head unit.
It's a Dual head unit that's dual dimm (Model XDVD269BT). I took it home so it's not hooked up to a car, but they said a previous technician said it wasn't getting ignition. I soldered and shrinkwrapped all of the connections and then hooked it up to a variable DC power supply. + to bat+ and ignition and - to ground. This unit doesn't have any fancy ECU turn on like some volkswagens. When it powers up (12.8v) it goes from .015A to .4A and makes a sound presumably to check if there's a disk inside, but no display. The Bluetooth is working, but no display no matter what I do. I can try to get it to play music, but there's no point if there's no display. What do you installers do when you don't get a display but the unit is pulling operating voltage and current? Is there another wire I need to short to positive like illumination?
Feel like it's pretty obvious but I'd like to be sure before I agree with the other technician who left it in bad shape and tell them they've wasted a week chasing the issue.
It's a Dual head unit that's dual dimm (Model XDVD269BT). I took it home so it's not hooked up to a car, but they said a previous technician said it wasn't getting ignition. I soldered and shrinkwrapped all of the connections and then hooked it up to a variable DC power supply. + to bat+ and ignition and - to ground. This unit doesn't have any fancy ECU turn on like some volkswagens. When it powers up (12.8v) it goes from .015A to .4A and makes a sound presumably to check if there's a disk inside, but no display. The Bluetooth is working, but no display no matter what I do. I can try to get it to play music, but there's no point if there's no display. What do you installers do when you don't get a display but the unit is pulling operating voltage and current? Is there another wire I need to short to positive like illumination?
Feel like it's pretty obvious but I'd like to be sure before I agree with the other technician who left it in bad shape and tell them they've wasted a week chasing the issue.