"Advocate" <Advo@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:rBQyf.493958$084.474238@attbi_s22...
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>>> I installed my amateur radio transceiver in the car today and these
>>> warning lights started after I completed the installation. During the
>>> installation I did not touch anything else on the truck -- was very
>>> careful to avoid all internal wiring, etc. I did connect my amateur
>>> radio directly to the battery -- a pair of #10 wires, fused, connect to
>>> the battery -- one to the pos terminal, one to the neg terminal.
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> Why did you run the negative cable to the battery? I'd have run it to the
> frame.
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The way the power lead from the radio is constructed, the red and black
wires are bonded together and there was not enough length on the black wire
to get to a place on the frame. HOWEVER -- as soon as the truck is back
from the shop, I am going to pull the black lead off the battery, splice on
a pigtail, and find a frame ground in the engine compartment. I still need
to install antennas -- the antenna mounts will have good frame grounds --
and I still need to ground the radio to the frame with a dedicated lead.
