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1995 camry stereo. What are these two wires?
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Thu, 28 April 2005 08:08
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Ok, first things first, I successfully installed a sony 3300 mp3 unit into my car last week. After using a multimeter and some common sense, I mapped out all of the wires, except two. Now they don't seem to affect the operation of the system, but I'd like to know what they were for. I currently have them disconnected:
On the smaller of the plugs to the original stereo, a thin black/white cable.
On the larger of the plugs to the original stereo, a thin green cable that is below the RED "always on" power cable (looking at the plug from the pin side, it's the very bottom right cable.
On a side note, it's funny how they still make available conversion looms for the box camry, but not for the widebody. I had to map all the wires, cut the plugs, and use a junction "box". Must be more people with the ugly square one I guess......
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Re: 1995 camry stereo. What are these two wires?
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Thu, 28 April 2005 08:13
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Its not for the electric aerial is it?
And if its all working, just ignore it.
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Re: 1995 camry stereo. What are these two wires?
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Thu, 28 April 2005 08:21
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I should have mentioned that, no electric aerial on my car. 
But the wires were there for a reason to begin with, I'm just curious to what they were for. They wern't earth either, that's the brown wire.  Oh yea, if anyone else wants to know what I've got documented, just ask and I'll type it out.
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Re: 1995 camry stereo. What are these two wires?
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Thu, 28 April 2005 08:25
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Maybe the car has a 5th speaker mounted somewhere?
Maybe its for an amp somewhere?
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Vic, AU
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Re: 1995 camry stereo. What are these two wires?
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Thu, 28 April 2005 08:35
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| Apollo wrote on Thu, 28 April 2005 18:08 |
On the smaller of the plugs to the original stereo, a thin black/white cable.
On the larger of the plugs to the original stereo, a thin green cable that is below the RED "always on" power cable (looking at the plug from the pin side, it's the very bottom right cable.
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What else was in the 2 plugs? Was one for speakers, the other power, acc., etc.?
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Re: 1995 camry stereo. What are these two wires?
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Thu, 28 April 2005 08:36
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I fit stereos for a living. The green wire is for illumination, and if you use your multimeter you will find it powers up when the lights are on. The white/black trace wire in the rear speaker plug is nothing on your car. Simply tape both up as you can't use either with your new stez
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Re: 1995 camry stereo. What are these two wires?
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Thu, 28 April 2005 08:40
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On the large plug you have Constant, usually blue with yellow trace, but on some models is red
Earth, usually brown but can be black
Acc power, usually grey
Illumination, usually green.
Then you have your two front speakers, pink/purple and green/fawn.
On the small plug you have you two rear channels, and the empty hole next to the white wire is for telephone mute on most models, except for commercials.
The white and black trace I think may be for a powered antenna. But not sure on your car
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Re: 1995 camry stereo. What are these two wires?
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Thu, 28 April 2005 08:49
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| muaythaiman wrote on Thu, 28 April 2005 18:36 |
I fit stereos for a living. The green wire is for illumination, and if you use your multimeter you will find it powers up when the lights are on. The white/black trace wire in the rear speaker plug is nothing on your car. Simply tape both up as you can't use either with your new stez
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Ah, thanks man. Yea, I know what you mean by the illumination one, it would turn on the green light above the tape slot when the lights were turned on. So yea, that one makes sense now.
So what would the black/white one do if it was functional?
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Re: 1995 camry stereo. What are these two wires?
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Thu, 28 April 2005 08:55
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By powered antenna I mean that it is actually amplified, not as in that it makes it go up and down. I may be wrong though. I put a stez in an 80 series landcruiser sahara the other day and the actuall electric motor antenna wires(there are two of them) were in the large plug. early 90's celicas also had 2 wires that needed to be powered for the antenna to extend/retract. The same as Subaru forresters the newer camrys have the antenna in the rear glass, and as they are not as good as a mast antenna, they need to be "powered"
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Re: 1995 camry stereo. What are these two wires?
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Thu, 28 April 2005 09:02
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| muaythaiman wrote on Thu, 28 April 2005 18:55 |
By powered antenna I mean that it is actually amplified, not as in that it makes it go up and down.
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Wow.. Learn something new every day.
I thought that most power/electric antennas worked from a trigger, similar to a remote power-on on amps.
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Considering my stereo had 2 trigger wires, one for amp, one for the antenna. One could just use a relay instead if needed.
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