To all Sailors who are electrical Smart, I need your help. I want to replace the old tape player/ Graphicis Equalizer / AM/ FM/ Radio that came with my Hunter Legend 37 1988.I want to install a new CD/AM/FM player, much like the ones installed in cars. Is this difficult to do, are the wires for power and speakers compatable. When I look at the wires etc. behind my current old system there seems to be many of them. Help??? Has anyone ever installed a new CD player. Thanks, Barrie
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Vernon Kinslow
Cd Installation
Try this! Find a store that installs stereo in automobiles. Tell the store manager what you want to buy and where you want to put it. Ask if they would send a man out to where your boat is to install the equipment if you buy the equipment from them? If not. ask if it is ok to hire one of the installers to come out and install the equipment, maybe one of the installers wants to make a few extra bucks. Offer a days sailing for him and some of his family as a bonus. You are going to buy the equipment anyway and some businesses offer free installation if the equipment is over a certain amount. A locally owned shop would probably be your best bet.
Try this! Find a store that installs stereo in automobiles. Tell the store manager what you want to buy and where you want to put it. Ask if they would send a man out to where your boat is to install the equipment if you buy the equipment from them? If not. ask if it is ok to hire one of the installers to come out and install the equipment, maybe one of the installers wants to make a few extra bucks. Offer a days sailing for him and some of his family as a bonus. You are going to buy the equipment anyway and some businesses offer free installation if the equipment is over a certain amount. A locally owned shop would probably be your best bet.
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Chris Burti
Plug?
Do the wires all run together at a modular plug about 1.5"x1"x2" about a foot from your stereo? If so, they have standardfized auto audio wiring and your boat has probably been wired the same. You can plug a new unit in and go. If not, (most likely the case) you'll have to trace the wires down, speakers...left/right-front and left/right-back. Power..should be black and red, a google search should produce the code standards for the rest.
Do the wires all run together at a modular plug about 1.5"x1"x2" about a foot from your stereo? If so, they have standardfized auto audio wiring and your boat has probably been wired the same. You can plug a new unit in and go. If not, (most likely the case) you'll have to trace the wires down, speakers...left/right-front and left/right-back. Power..should be black and red, a google search should produce the code standards for the rest.
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I have put in three on different boats.. It is not hard to do. Most of the speaker wires are color coded and are standard radio to radio. Before you pull out the old radio, disconnect one speaker wire at a time and see what you are left with and mark the wire just in case the coding is incorrect. The new radio will almost for sure have the speaker wires marked properly.. Only other thing is make sure you have enough depth behind the new radio. My last one was mounted above the breaker panel and the new one was about 2 inches longer and would not fit into the old slot without bumping up against the bus bars.. I had to reposition things to make it fit... Brian
I have put in three on different boats.. It is not hard to do. Most of the speaker wires are color coded and are standard radio to radio. Before you pull out the old radio, disconnect one speaker wire at a time and see what you are left with and mark the wire just in case the coding is incorrect. The new radio will almost for sure have the speaker wires marked properly.. Only other thing is make sure you have enough depth behind the new radio. My last one was mounted above the breaker panel and the new one was about 2 inches longer and would not fit into the old slot without bumping up against the bus bars.. I had to reposition things to make it fit... Brian
Installing a stereo is easy....
take out the old stereo one wire at a time and mark all the wires as to what they are, making sure to get the polarity right on both the power and speaker wires. Be wary of color-coding of the wires from the old radio versus the new, there is little standardization of the colors used for different things between the different manufacturers. Use good quality insulated crimp connectors of the proper size to re-make the connections to the new stereo following the wiring diagram that is in the install manual for the new stereo. Fit it all back together, but don't use any hardware that is included with the new radio, instead get the right screws/bolts/nuts in stainless and use those instead. I worked for a car stereo/cell phone/two-way radio shop when I was in college, so I've installed literally hundreds of the little buggers over the years and it really isn't that big of a deal. If you need some extra help, email me at jmade@d-web.com and I'll get right back to you. Later, Jeff
take out the old stereo one wire at a time and mark all the wires as to what they are, making sure to get the polarity right on both the power and speaker wires. Be wary of color-coding of the wires from the old radio versus the new, there is little standardization of the colors used for different things between the different manufacturers. Use good quality insulated crimp connectors of the proper size to re-make the connections to the new stereo following the wiring diagram that is in the install manual for the new stereo. Fit it all back together, but don't use any hardware that is included with the new radio, instead get the right screws/bolts/nuts in stainless and use those instead. I worked for a car stereo/cell phone/two-way radio shop when I was in college, so I've installed literally hundreds of the little buggers over the years and it really isn't that big of a deal. If you need some extra help, email me at jmade@d-web.com and I'll get right back to you. Later, Jeff
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agolden
I just went through the same senario. Had a Craig Multi-Disk CD which died and replaced it with a Sony. I thought it would be simple but it was not. The sytems were different and I could not use the theory of coding the wires...so I hired a pro and it works and sounds great. There are somethings that some of us mortals just can't do!
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