Chimaea Aerial

[meeko]

I've read that the Chimaera aerial is powered. I had a look at the connection behind my stero, and there is an additional wire from my stereo (think it's a perm live) that connects to the aerial - is this standard? Am getting a new stereo this week and was wondering how to fit it.

Cheers,

Steve

[the dodger]

Why would you want a powered aerial that is hidden?

There is a permanent live behind, I think it's the yellow wire. Or could be red, but they are usually ignition-on power AFAIK.

[woody_450]

Hi

I've just swapped my Pioneer tape deck machine for a new Pioneer CD head unit. It was a straight swap, the power is the yellow wire BTW.

The aerial does have two wires the standard black one and a smaller red wire, this is probably to do with the the aerial earth or something. Someone will probably put me right, but I just ingored it and it works fine.

The only issue I had was that I forgot to connect in the earth for the multi cd player, doh

I think they have powered aerials because they didn't want to spoil the lines by having an external aerial.

Rich

[meeko]

Hi Rich,

You are right, they use a powered aerial so as not to have an ugly external one. My problem is, what do you do with the red wire from the aerial? Does this need to be earther, or supplied with +12v?

Cheers,

Steve

[woody_450]

Hi

The red wire on mine was connected to the aerial plug that goes into the head unit, I guess it will be connected for the earth of the aerial.

I have to take my head unit out in the next couple of days to fit a aux input unit for my pda navigation thingy, so I can hear it above the engine, so I'll check out exactly what where and how that little red wire is used

Rich

[nasz]

My aerial is rubbish. I have a Sony Head Unit and cannot pick up any radio stations. If I manually tune them in, they switch to 'seek' after 30 seconds.

Getting very frustrated - should I change the aerial?