Big Sky Euro

HEy volks,

new to this site, and excited to be apart of the vw MT community. I am in a long ongoing process of upgrading my stereo.

Anybody in the bozeman area competent with stereo intalls, mainly head units. Ive got an eclipse 4x50 external amp, and currently just 2 rear 4"polks running off the amp.i am waiting for my new sony head unit, and I will eventually replace the stock 4" blaupunkt in the door.

I have an auxillary battery along with the starter batt., and i would like to run the stereo off the aux with key out of ignition.

I am new to electrical, and am unsure about running my hot wires right off the auxillary + terminal. do i use inline fuse, or aux. fuse panel, or no fuse at all????

Any help or assisstance would be much appreciated. i can compesate ones time for a successfull install with some organic ganja if need be.

peace
Tyler

Welcome to the site bro.
How did you hear about us?

I've installed a few heads so I'd be willing to help anytime I can.

The stereo will have a red wire, yellow wire and black wire, in addition to the speaker output leads, which you may or may not be using, if you are using the amp. They yellow wire is a constant +12V input, the red will be a switched(keyed) +12v, and the black is ground. The yellow can go to your aux battery positive terminal, with an inline fuse, 10amp should be fine. The black goes to the neg terminal, no fuse needed. The red is where it gets tricky, you can do it one of two ways. You can also connect it to the aux battery, but you would not have any keyed ignition power over the stereo. You would manually have to use the source/off buttons to get it to come on and off. the upside is you can run it off the aux battery without any chance of running down the starting battery, the downside is that you can forget to turn it off and run the aux batt dead.

You will also want to make sure that the amp power and ground are also only connected to the aux battery, so that you are only using that as a power source for the whole setup.

There you go, no cheeba needed!

checkers, i believe you dropped some info about the site into my van yesterday on campus. ill try and get in contact with you this next week. renneberg, thanks for input, i'm one step closer. this might not even matter, but do i want the inline fuse closer to the battery terminal, or right off the back of the headunit.