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On my headunit wire harness i have an orange/white wire that comes from it that says- dimmer.

On the wiring harness i bought (that plugs into the stock one and connects to the head unit) it has one orange one and one orange/white one both coming out of it. the orange/white one says dimmer and the orange one says illuminaton.

if i hook the orange/white from the hu to the orange white one it does not dim. but if i hook the orange/white one to the orange one it dims.

i just dont wannna blow my gauges like i did in the past. 500 dollars down the hole! so if you could tell me how you did it, thanks



****** on the back of my hu i have a place for input and it is a round circle and has prongs in it. i wanna hook a dvd player up to it and i dont know what type of cable i need for this. help me out.*******

 
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I just installed a new HU and I didn't connect either wire to anything because my HU had an automatic lighted background which is always on. (When the radio is on that is) I think those dimmer wires are for some HU that have those features, not sure. Mine didn't. That's all I got man, hope that helps. Also, the blue/white wire I think was for a power antenna which didn't apply to me either. So in total, I think I had three wires I just capped off and didn't bother using.

If you are not sure, does the manufacturer of your HU have a tech support number?? I had to actually call to get my questions answered, that's why I know.

 
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thanks man

 
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it shouldn't matter which one you use but if your scared of frying the lights then use the orange/white with the orange/white becasue nowadays (if thats a word) everything for every car is universal with that stuff.

 
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i found out that orang/white to orange/white allows you to dim it using the **** in the cluster and orange/white to orange dims it when you turn on the headlights

 
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sound right?

 
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i've never heard of the dimming with the headlight before because most HU's i've installed didn't have the plain orange wire and the ones that did, i did orange/white to orange/white. with the O/W to O/W you should be able to dimm the HU with the little **** by the speedo. but the O/W to O sounds correct but i wouldn't do it.

 
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mystic-you connected o/w to o/w?

also what does the power ant connect to?

 
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Power ant. connects to the same color wire on the harness...blue/white stripe. And I have a correction, on my old HU I connected the ow to ow. The new one doesnt have the option to dim with the switch in the cluster, just with the headlights. Thats the illumination wire.

 
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so it is ok to hook o/w to o wire?

and i dont think i have a blue /white wire

 
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its so when you turn on the driving lights your radio dims just like your lights on the ac or clock or emergency light

 
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^^^i know but i was askin if it was ok to hook two different color wires together

 
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if your asking if its going to damage anything, no, but the dimming feature probably isnt going to work right.