Electrical help pleeeeaaase

In our Navara, ( just sold it ) the UHF, a Uniden 013 remote head, Sits on top of the glovebox, held in by valcro ( gotta love that stuff ), and the control head sits in a pod on the dash, below the CD/radio.

Have had a lot of trouble with getting distance, due to bad earth's.

I earthed the chassis of the UHF to the battery, I earthed the base of the aerial to the battery. and earthed the bull bar to the chassis.

Worked for a while then the crackling started, again...

Found that if I scrathed around the bullbar hole, for the aerial, I would be right for a while ( say, 6 weeks ) then I would have to re-scratch the hole..

Never been able to figure that bit out..

Mate came around, I helped him install his GME, basically did the same, to his overhead console and he has never had a problem, ever..
Perplexing isn't it..

Drove me nuts..

Have I missed anything ??....or just your question ?

Cheers
Bucky

g'day Mike

yes i did check the multimeter on the battery and it works fine

I know what you are saying about running direct to the battery, however i had two concerns with that.. 1 is the chance of leaving it on overnight or weekend and finding a flat battery on monday morning, i would not be happy. Thats why i was looking for a power supply in the accessories circuit
2nd is that there is nowhere to feed the wiring through the firewall. as it is i've had to feed the coax for the aerial through the floor where the engine wiring loom goes, just in front of the passenger seat.

Thanks

Donks1

HI , you dont need to worry about it running your battery down over night or over a weekend ---

i have left mine on for well over a week -- and my car starts NO problem at all - i do have a truck battery in the Nissan but still there was no effect of battery drain after a week

just remember when you connect direct to battery ( recommended ) that you should add an inline fuse - if your still concerned - then see if a dual battery setup would be ok for you and put ALL accessories on that battery

just a side note - i have had a wacco 80 l fridge run in my car for 2 days without it totally draining my battery to the point i could not start the car - and that uses a LOT more power than a GME

Boc

hmmm I would like to see this, as it doesn't make sense. DIO surprisingly mentions earth switching but there would still be a positive at the back of the cig lighter, did u check the other cable to see if it was alive?

Hi Bonz

Yeh i checked the other wire aswell. Got me stumped

This morning i've decided to bite the bullett and go through the firewall direct to the battery. that can't go wrong, just a bit more difficult

Thanks all


Donks1