How do I install my pioneer cd player in my boat?

Question

I have an accessorie switch that I want to run it through so its not always on. The accessorie switch has a fuse. Please help me out here!

Answer 1

The yellow wire from the CD player should be connected to a source with constant voltage, like the positive battery terminal. The red wire should be connected to the accessory switch output. The black wire needs to be connected to ground (negative battery terminal).

Answer 2

Connections is one of your problems. The new unit should guide you on the wires being aligned. Importantly its the moisture levels and the bumps that you will have to worry about. The water can get rather bumpy specially when under way and so the unit will have to be a good quality one which is meant for rough use conditions to take all the bumps and keep the music from skipping and worse yet damaging the player and or the disc. The usual connections are the power wires two (pos and neg)plus ground. Then depending on your set up you will need right and left speakers with two wires each and you may have two more speakers as well. Make sure you keep the polarity of the speaker wire the same they also have a plus or minus or you can just look at the current copper to color type logic. Stay safe on the water and remember noise on water carries and so other peoples tunes are noise to you and vice a versa. Safe boating

Answer 3

I took a 10" subwoofer box and put my stereo inside the box with a peice of rubber nailed to the front covering the 10" hole. Then I strapped the stereo down in the box ran the hot wire to a toggle with a fuse of coarse. for speakers I had a couple of out door speakers I strapped down and wired in. and for the antenae if you don't have one I'd go to autozone and get a whole antenae kit. yeah it was a crappy looking setup but it worked. It looked better then the 16' leaky wreck it was in.

Answer 4

here's a link to them on ebay.