dandelos
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Took a few hours to install the PMP and Blackvue 650 on our my car yesterday, and was hoping to have a smoother time on the wife's car today, but unfortunately I ran into a problem with the PMP not turning on at all (whether the car is on or not). Hoping some of you here can provide some input to help diagnose the problem.
Here's the set up in the fuse box. The "BATT" (yellow) wire is attached via an addafuse/add-a-circuit to fuse slot #2 "Parking heater radio receiver". I had previously used a light meter to confirm that this fuse slot is 'ON' even when the car is off. The "ACC" (red) wire is attached, also via an addafuse/add-a-circuit to fuse slot #51 "A/C, diagnosis, moving-off assistant". Similarly, I had used a light meter to test that this fuse slot is 'OFF' when the car is off.
Here is a picture of the fuse assignments from the car's manual. I circled fuse slot #39 in yellow too because I had also tried using that slot with the yellow "BATT" wire (after fuse slot #2 didn't work), but got the same result (i.e. PMP not turning on even when its main switch is flipped "|" (ON).
Here a couple of pictures showing the PMP's green LED does not turn on when the main switch is flipped "|" (ON).
Based on this issue it seems like the PMP is not getting power whether the car is on or off, meaning the yellow "BATT" wire connection may be an issue. I know it doesn't definitively show anything, but here are a couple of pictures showing the crimping that I did for the yellow wire (to the addafuse/add-a-circuit).
Of course, there is always the possibility that the (brand new) PMP itself is bad, but not sure how often that happens.
Thoughts?
Here's the set up in the fuse box. The "BATT" (yellow) wire is attached via an addafuse/add-a-circuit to fuse slot #2 "Parking heater radio receiver". I had previously used a light meter to confirm that this fuse slot is 'ON' even when the car is off. The "ACC" (red) wire is attached, also via an addafuse/add-a-circuit to fuse slot #51 "A/C, diagnosis, moving-off assistant". Similarly, I had used a light meter to test that this fuse slot is 'OFF' when the car is off.
![HXYAjEx.jpg](/forum/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FHXYAjEx.jpg&hash=135f1a02c55d83043e7e9fa916862f05)
Here is a picture of the fuse assignments from the car's manual. I circled fuse slot #39 in yellow too because I had also tried using that slot with the yellow "BATT" wire (after fuse slot #2 didn't work), but got the same result (i.e. PMP not turning on even when its main switch is flipped "|" (ON).
![zrDU0LE.jpg](/forum/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FzrDU0LE.jpg&hash=9fbd6af7131f443b6397e44b4344d882)
Here a couple of pictures showing the PMP's green LED does not turn on when the main switch is flipped "|" (ON).
![TxskqnQ.jpg](/forum/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FTxskqnQ.jpg&hash=1e16a967cf81aef6d2a36c4b770e6c4a)
![qF3NwyD.jpg](/forum/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FqF3NwyD.jpg&hash=8d86c56419f129257fef0a297aafb30d)
Based on this issue it seems like the PMP is not getting power whether the car is on or off, meaning the yellow "BATT" wire connection may be an issue. I know it doesn't definitively show anything, but here are a couple of pictures showing the crimping that I did for the yellow wire (to the addafuse/add-a-circuit).
![GCDRrqC.jpg](/forum/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FGCDRrqC.jpg&hash=51976e556a06d0cb6fbfe2575b7f3730)
![TZjkoA6.jpg](/forum/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FTZjkoA6.jpg&hash=79b358f6a3bceb252e7f47d43ce63639)
Of course, there is always the possibility that the (brand new) PMP itself is bad, but not sure how often that happens.
Thoughts?