Anyone ever install this in their car? if so, how did you go about grounding out the ground wire for the video playback? it says you should wire it to your parking brake so you can only view video when the parking brake is engaged. how do you bypass this? just ground it out or put a switch on this?

 

Please read me the date on the bottom of the radio.

 

May 2006

 

Your going to ground the parking brake wire. If it after may you might have to put a push button on it to pulse the parking wire. Try the first method first. If the screen blanks out after a min use the second method.

 

Let me set the record straight for this particular stereo. After extensive research and some trial and error, I discovered one very important fact:

GROUNDING THE PARKING BRAKE WIRE (THE GREEN ONE) DOES NOT WORK.

The older HUs could be bypassed by grounding the brake wire, but this one is apparently "smarter." It needs to see a change from 12 volts to 0 volts. In other words, it needs to be powered, then grounded.

There are numerous ways to do this. The easiest is to wire in a simple toggle switch that connects the parking brake wire to a 12v source on one side and to ground on the other. So in one switch position the green wire is getting 12 volts. When you switch the switch the green wire is now connected to ground.

If you don't want to have a switch sticking out somewhere or you're like me and just don't like the idea of drilling holes in your dashboard or console, then there's a great method that I found on another forum (http://avic411.com/index.php?/topic/...800dvd__st__15).

Get a plain ol' 3-pole transistor (NPN type with Emitter, Base and Collector), a 1000 ohm resistor and a 10,000 ohm resistor and four pieces of wire. I use black, red, green and blue wire for this, since they connect to ground, 12v, the green parking brake wire and the blue system remote wire. The red wire is connected through the 1000 ohm resistor to the Collector terminal, the green wire is connected directly to the Collector terminal, the blue wire is connected through the 10,000 ohm resistor to the Base terminal and the black wire is connected to the Emitter terminal.

Sorry for the lack of images. Check out the site I listed above. There are great images there of the wiring diagram and actual shots of a completely wired unit. Credit goes to those guys for their hard work. I'm just adding the description and links here so Honda-Tech has it handy.

I can tell you that the transistor method works. I wired the bypass last night and installed it and it worked perfect.

 

Do not send high current 12volts up that wire! Smh....

 

Which wire? Remember that the green and blue wires don't connect directly with the 12 volts. The resistors are there to drop the current so it won't fry anything.