home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   sci.electronics.repair      Fixing electronic equipment      124,925 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 124,731 of 124,925   
   Carlos E.R. to Michael Trew   
   Re: Car Radio Repair   
   16 Jul 25 22:37:31   
   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-07-16 18:20, Michael Trew wrote:   
   > Hello,   
   >   
   > I bought an old Ford Ranger digital AM clock radio from a pull-a-part. I   
   > was surprised to learn that they bothered to make an AM-only digital   
   > radio by the 90's.  One would think after analog radios, it would have   
   > been cheaper to make all the "new" digital radios AM and FM.  I figure   
   > it's rare to see one of these AM radios today, not replaced.   
   >   
   > Someone chopped the radio wiring harness in my truck (I wish I saved the   
   > harness from the yard).  I wired another harness in, but I somehow   
   > shorted the hot wire off of the radio ground, I believe.  It make a   
   > quick spark at first, and now the radio doesn't function.  The back-   
   > light will illuminate when the headlights are turned on, but that's it.   
      
   Maybe there is a fuse inside.   
      
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca