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molerat · Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 8:17 pm Post subject: What wire goes where?

I am attempting to replace my speakers with the Polks mentioned from other posts. I verified the radio worked before taking everything apart. I wanted to verify the speakers worked before installing permanently. Now I can't get the radio to work, like a dumb ass I did not take a pic or notes of what wire connected to what wire, I have had the radio out before and figured it out, but not this time, can't even get the red light to illuminate on the radio or handlebars which tells me no power I think.
Pic's are tough to make out but any help would be appreciated.

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Brian

1995 K1100 LT
1952 HRD Vincent Black Shadow, Series C

Scott_Anderson · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 8:47 am Post subject:

Well, from what I can see so far, connect the browns together--they are the ground part of the circuit.

The single Red/Yellow of the radio side should have a matching red/yellow connector on the bike side. The bike side connector should also have 2 violet(purple) wires in the connector. The stray violet will connect with the single grey of the radio side.

Unless you have an amplified antenna, you won't connect the tiny red(ant.amp) wire.

You may also have a cig lighter on your setup. The wiring fiche doesn't indicate how that is connected, so it may also connect to a violet wire as the violet is a switched circuit. The red/yellow should be constant power.
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molerat · Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2014 10:36 pm Post subject:

Finally got the polks installed, see pic's below. Thanks Scott for the advice, but it turned out to be a burnt fuse, silly me. The speakers sound good, not done with the install though, the grills that came with the speakers are way to large so instead of cutting them down I decided to leave the speakers as is and hopefully find some grills at radio shack or other place that will fit the speakers.

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Brian

1995 K1100 LT
1952 HRD Vincent Black Shadow, Series C