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CD Player grounding

Postby cleave » Tue Aug 01, 2006 5:45 am

HELP!this is for you electrical experts...

I am installing a car stereo/cd player and 2 speakers in my galley. the diagram says i have to connect the black ground lead to a "metal surface of the car". do i have to connect to the trailer frame? can i ground it to something else? can i run it back to where all my other ground wires from lights, etc.. go? back to the battery?

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Postby PaulC » Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:05 am

Cleave, if you are running a "floating circuit", like most of us do, just run it back to your common ground point for all of your 12v appliances. Simple system for our simple life style.
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Postby cleave » Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:47 am

Paul,

what is a "floating circuit"?

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Postby IndyCubby » Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:55 am

The black wire should go back to the negative (-) terminal of your battery. It is called the ground wire because regular car electric systems are typically 12v negative ground....meaning that the car frame is "grounded" or connected to the negative terminal of the battery.

Run your hot wire(s) to the positive side and fuse them....and then your black ground wire to the negative (-) and you'll have tunes in no time!
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Postby PaulC » Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:15 am

IndyCubby wrote:The black wire should go back to the negative (-) terminal of your battery. It is called the ground wire because regular car electric systems are typically 12v negative ground....meaning that the car frame is "grounded" or connected to the negative terminal of the battery.

Run your hot wire(s) to the positive side and fuse them....and then your black ground wire to the negative (-) and you'll have tunes in no time!


And that, my good man, is what we call a floating circuit. No part of the vehicle(TD) is used to close the circuit. A torch uses a floating circuit.

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