[DML] Re: VB Radio Harness (Location of Common Junction)

["content22207" <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The commons are tied together right behind the A/C console. If you
don't mind using factory 18-20 GA wire to the speakers, you can make
individual connections there.

Bill Robertson
#5939

>--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Marc Levy <malevy_nj@xxxx> wrote:
> If you are installing an after market "high power"
> stereo, run new wires.
> 
> The older stereo's used a "common ground", where
> modern high power units use "floating ground".  If you
> wire a floating ground unit to a common ground
> configuration it WILL play  but you will blow up the
> radio in a short time.
> 
> VB's harness will work in the rare circumstance that
> you are replacing the stock radio with another
> low-power crappy radio.  I have yet to see ANYONE do
> this in a DeLorean, which is why VB's harness is
> pretty much useless.
> 
> You could cut his harness and use just the power and
> ground leads to power your new stereo, but this is not
> a great idea either.  Newer high-power stereos also
> consume more power, and the stock wire may not handle
> the additional load...  but either way you should run
> new wires to the speakers.
> 







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