[ICOM] Mobile DC power running question

[Paul Gates, KD3JF]

You save a lot of headaches and fear if you route the cable from the battery to the driver's side.....This hint I got from the GM engineers.

Paul

Mike - 2007 <mike-2007 at elp.rr.com> wrote: 


 

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> [mailto:icom-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Lawrence Young
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 3:13 AM
> To: icom at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [ICOM] Mobile DC power running question
> 
> Tom: Try asking an auto Hi-Fi store that installs extra 
> speakers how they route the extra wiring for the large 
> thumpers in a car like yours. They may for a modest fee run 
> the wiring for you. Larry K4LXV.

OTOH - nothing more dangerous than a minimum-wage kid with power tools on
your new car.  I would say ask questions, but feel them out good before you
just let them start drilling holes.  I hole drilled through the ignition
computer on the other side of a jeep firewall makes it hard to start.  Guess
how we know about this.

Mike - KD9KC.
M.A.R.I.E.
El Paso, Tx. 
www.w5dpd.org

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