cd player wiring

[IL4Festiva]

Ok, i have these connectors on these Solid blue and blue/white striped wires. One is labelled ANT REM MAX 0.1A on the solid blue, and the striped is AMP REM MAX 0.3A. I did a google of this, and it says the ANT is for antenna remote, and the AMP for an amplifier, but i don't see ONE wire controlling an amplifier.. There are 2 clamp connectors on the ends of these wires. I cannot second guess that they are speaker wires, cause this cd player was spliced to hell when i got it, there is only like an inch of wire left on each of connector wires. God knows what my buddy used it for.. not a car though.

Edit: there are 2 rows of wires, the blue wires are on 1 row together, but all the rest of the wires that are solid and black striped, are in series in collumns, the blue and blue white stripe are directly beside eachother. common sense is saying that these are indeed, not speaker wires? and the white and white w/black stripe are speaker wires?

[SimonTuffGuy]

The antenna and amp wires are exactly what they're talking about... 1 is for a power antenna... You'd connect that to your antenna wire and when you turned on the radio (vs. cd player, etc) it'll put the antenna out. Since you don't have that, tape it off... The amp wire is the same thing. Most amps (or at least when I was into systems, it was like this) needed a "jump wire"... Basically, the amp always had power and ground from the main wires you connect it to, but the amp didn't turn on until the CD player was also turned on... It just puts out enough juice to tell the amp, "Hey, I'm on... so turn on and bump my subs!"... Again - tape it off if you're not running an amp.

The remainder of the wires (the solid and striped ones) are speaker wires, as I mentioned above.

[IL4Festiva]

Aha! thanks guys, too busy to hook it up today or tommorow but i'll get er done for saturday, let ya know how it works. Thanks everyone, and special thanks to simon for his Time and fast posts.
Take it easy fellas
Sean

[SimonTuffGuy]

Eh, that's what we're here for.

[IL4Festiva]

Great.. the cd player has power, will eject cds and such, but the display does not come on.. maybe it needs an illumination wire? why else would the display not light up? and what festiva wire does the illumination wire go to?
which fuse is the radio linked to? I, in a burnout moment, figured the illumination wire should go to the acc wire, attached it and it sparked, i think i blew the fuse in the back of the player because it dont work now haha.
feedback appreciated
sean

[SimonTuffGuy]

Sean -

From the link that 25HP provided... The lights should be the white/red wire from the Festiva harness. The only thing that wire is going to do is dim the panel when you turn your headlights on though... It's a safety precaution so that you don't have a blinding headunit on at night.

If you're got power and it plays cd's and such, I'd assume that it's the headunit itself that's busted and not a missing wire.

Your headunit may have a fuse in the back of it that could've blown. I've seen some that have an inline fuse in the main battery wire (usually yellow)... Or check the fuse box. I believe the cd player ties into the cigar fuse...

[IL4Festiva]

yeah man that might do it, i just replaced my cigarette fuse but i think i blew it again tryin to hook up the stereo, that'd be why it stopped working again...

[FestivaWilliam08]

The antenna and amp wires are exactly what they're talking about... 1 is for a power antenna... You'd connect that to your antenna wire and when you turned on the radio (vs. cd player, etc) it'll put the antenna out. Since you don't have that, tape it off... The amp wire is the same thing. Most amps (or at least when I was into systems, it was like this) needed a "jump wire"... Basically, the amp always had power and ground from the main wires you connect it to, but the amp didn't turn on until the CD player was also turned on... It just puts out enough juice to tell the amp, "Hey, I'm on... so turn on and bump my subs!"... Again - tape it off if you're not running an amp.

The remainder of the wires (the solid and striped ones) are speaker wires, as I mentioned above.

Ok this is new to me as well........I have been manually pulling my antenna out & your telling me theres a wire that will do that for me??????? OMG Feels like an idiot standing there manual pulling his antenna out when he's about to loose signal lol

[SimonTuffGuy]

If you're putting in a new fuse and it's blowing right away, you've got a hot wire that's grounding out somewhere.

[MONSOON]

Ok this is new to me as well........I have been manually pulling my antenna out & your telling me theres a wire that will do that for me??????? OMG Feels like an idiot standing there manual pulling his antenna out when he's about to loose signal lol

Only if you have a power antenna.