wolfpuppy

"Matt Macchiarolo" <matt@nospamplease.com> wrote in message
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> Are you sure there is no 'accessory' position on the ignition switch?
>

When I was talking to a ford tech at a local Lincoln dealership, he was
pretty adamant that ford discontinued that mode. I'm still not sure why.
My best guess is, again, that ford determined that the draw was too much on
the system and set it up to time out after a few minutes. One poster here
says it appears to around 15 minutes, but on my navigator, I would bet a
beer that it is less than that. Also, that could be because my sound system
might be different, read 'draws more'.

Many years ago, I owned a '67 volkswagon beetle. Had some issues, but a
fairly good car overall. It didn't have an accessory mode either, as I
recall. What I ended up doing was simply hard-wiring the radio straight to
the battery power. End of problem. Of course you had to be real careful to
remember to turn the radio off when you parked, but radios in that era
didn't pull nearly the watts they do now, so it wasn't a huge problem. Try
that now with a modern vehicle and you would probably give a computer chip a
nervous breakdown and the computer brain a stroke!