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Hopefully these will be helpful.

Radio Harness Wiring


Lighter Wiring

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vtecfelon23

what visteon product are you referring to?
also, i think im still unclear on powering your laptop..
you have a PS for your lappy that is meant for in car use?
-- im just worried you are using the stock wall adapter 120 v ac and splicing that for your car cigg lighter (12v dc)

d3siboy

Diggs thanks for pictures, now I think I will be able to do it. However how are you controlling auto shutdown, and auto on for your laptop? Are you using any shutdown controller?

Thanks

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Visteon HDZ300 HD Radio.

Yes on the laptop PS, no it's not a spliced wall adapter. Refer to the image I included in my first post. It's a car adapter specific to laptops. Bought mine on eBay:

http://stores.ebay.com/Laptopsintern...QQftidZ2QQtZkm

diggs

Using XP's power management for shutdown, no shutdown controller. Right now I have it going into standby after 5 minutes on battery power, but I will probably need to switch that to hibernation since my laptop battery doesn't have a lot of juice.

To power on I'm using a momentary switch that plugs into the dialup jack. I soldered wires to the jack from the power button leads on the motherboard.

d3siboy

ok great. That make sense. I am going to solder wire on my laptop switch instead of modem. Also, if I have my laptop in trunk. How would I extend the power to all the way by radio harness? Thanks

diggs

My newb/non-expert thought would be to just solder/shrink on enough extra wire to cover the distance, but maybe someone with more knowledge and experience would care to chime in. I don't know if there are degradation issues or not when running lengths of thin gauge power wiring, such as what would be coming from your harness.

d3siboy

I see that is what I was thinking just add extra power wiring there. I will just get that from Radio Shack or something. Thanks again for all that help. Now I got the power issue figured out, now need to work on audio

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