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<blockquote data-quote="DaleH" data-source="post: 420916" data-attributes="member: 15636"><p>Black needs to go back to the negative post of the battery. If you have a combo fuse/breaker box up at the helm or similar, it can go back to the negative connection there.</p><p></p><p>Typically yellow on radio circuits are the "always (non-switched) hot or powered" conenction, where with digital radios you don't lose pre-set radio stations and such. Not having this would be like disconnectng the battery to your car ... you'd lose all your pre-set radio stations and the like.</p><p></p><p>Red would go to the positive at the combo fuse/breaker and this wire powers up the radio.</p><p></p><p>Just <strong>NOTE</strong> this wiring herein is specific to this radio use .... as otherwise the new convention<em> explicit to marine DC circuits</em> is that yellow is replacing the black color as the ground wire ... due to boats or houseboats blowing up where the owner plugged into shore power and combined AC black (hot) wires with marine DC black (ground) wires ... which equals fire if not 'kaboom' :shock: !.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DaleH, post: 420916, member: 15636"] Black needs to go back to the negative post of the battery. If you have a combo fuse/breaker box up at the helm or similar, it can go back to the negative connection there. Typically yellow on radio circuits are the "always (non-switched) hot or powered" conenction, where with digital radios you don't lose pre-set radio stations and such. Not having this would be like disconnectng the battery to your car ... you'd lose all your pre-set radio stations and the like. Red would go to the positive at the combo fuse/breaker and this wire powers up the radio. Just [b]NOTE[/b] this wiring herein is specific to this radio use .... as otherwise the new convention[i] explicit to marine DC circuits[/i] is that yellow is replacing the black color as the ground wire ... due to boats or houseboats blowing up where the owner plugged into shore power and combined AC black (hot) wires with marine DC black (ground) wires ... which equals fire if not 'kaboom' :shock: !. [/QUOTE]
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