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Subject:Re: Saphire XI Radio problems
Date:Wed, 13 Mar 1996 11:53:43 -0500

"Jacob Shaun Dustin" <DUSTINO@caedm.et.byu.edu> writes:
>
>I've run into a little problem in trying to hook the radio up.  
>I've found the power lead (black w. fuse) and the speaker wires, but 
>there's a thick blue wire that I can't figure.  The antenna is the 
>ground, isn't it???  The radio works without the blue wire hooked up, 
>but if anyone has an idea of what it might be for, I'd sure like to 
>know. 
>
>Thanks!
>
>--Shaun Dustin
>
Knowing nothing about the radio, I'd guess that the extra wire might be
for a light.  You'd hook it into the rest of the dash lights so it would come
on when you turned the headlights on.  But that would be a THIN wire, not
a thick one, you'd think.

Pat Walsh, '71 Westy, walshp@ippdsgi3.nawc-ad-indy.navy.mil