Electric aerial connections?

[JMF894]

Hi all,I'm trying to fit a new electric aerial to replace the old one that was u/s when I bought the car.

Are these the correct connectors I have in my hand? I assume the nut and washer is the earth which is actually earthed elsewhere on the car?




Jim

[SuffolkFox]

I will have a look later and let you know unless someone beats me to it.

Interestingly the aerial disappeared into the body on mine when the top nut fell off one day after the mast had jammed and fallen apart. The motor part of it is still in place and due to the amount of wire mesh inside the boot which it is connected to (I assume for grounding/shielding/keeping chickens out?) there is no difference to the signal received so I am about to fill in the hole. The motor whirrs when I turn the radio on and music is produced, nuff said. It seems to work the same as the internal aerial supplied at one time to be mounted in the boot below the soft-top hoop as I think both have a little amplifier in them.

[JMF894]

Can I add that the old aerial was in place but no wires connected, so I have no reference.

[Grady]

I think that correct. But check to see if the wiring of the new motor is the same as the old.

IIRC, the old design was always on, holding up the mast as it were, unless it was off and the mast came down. New motors (over here anyway) are wired to send an up or down signal. Check your instructions; I think the fix was a jumper on the big white TVR plug behind the radio. I know it didn't require running new wires.

I wrote a detailed description of the wiring fix but it was more than 2 years ago and so is gone. Grady

[Mr Tank]

Hi

They look correct to me!
Best way to check is to remove the radio and see if the two wires appear at the radio, and then do a continuity check on them!

Andy

[JMF894]

Well the bolt n washer affair is the earth and the orangey/red is power. However.................if i connect the red and green wires from the aerial together then connect them to the orangey/red wire from the car the aerial goes up. If i then disconnect the green wire from the aerial from the red wire the aerial goes down. This means it's up permanently or down, it isn't controlled by the radio being on or off. The blue wire from the car that goes into the connector you see in my hand appears to do nothing.

Confused?

I am!

[Mr Tank]

Hi

Now the bolt/black wire is the earth so forget that!

The aerial you are trying to connect is it a auto aerial or a semi auto aerial?

Andy

[dixiebabes]

SuffolkFox said:

I will have a look later and let you know unless someone beats me to it.

Interestingly the aerial disappeared into the body on mine when the top nut fell off one day after the mast had jammed and fallen apart. The motor part of it is still in place and due to the amount of wire mesh inside the boot which it is connected to (I assume for grounding/shielding/keeping chickens out?) there is no difference to the signal received so I am about to fill in the hole. The motor whirrs when I turn the radio on and music is produced, nuff said. It seems to work the same as the internal aerial supplied at one time to be mounted in the boot below the soft-top hoop as I think both have a little amplifier in them.

Exact same thing happened to me now o have an ugly rubber one on place, works a great mind.

Dix

[JMF894]

Mr Tank said:

Hi

Now the bolt/black wire is the earth so forget that!

The aerial you are trying to connect is it a auto aerial or a semi auto aerial?

Andy

Well it has black wire for earth, red wire for power and green wire is described as for 'radio on/off'

Same wires as the old aerial

Jim

ps semi/auto as opposed to auto???

[mrzigazaga]

Thats really weird..Mine had that but i stuck the bolt in my ear and my tongue on the connector and i could hear tony blackburn on radio one..Freaky











PS:Not really..

[Mr Tank]

JMF894 said:

Well it has black wire for earth, red wire for power and green wire is described as for 'radio on/off'

Same wires as the old aerial

Jim

ps semi/auto as opposed to auto???

Jim

Well a semi usualy needs a relay were a auto has one built in, or if its a cheap semi (Sorry) it may need a switch i.e. up and down!

Andy

[JMF894]

Mr Tank said:

Jim

Well a semi usualy needs a relay were a auto has one built in, or if its a cheap semi (Sorry) it may need a switch i.e. up and down!

Andy

Its fully auto

[mrzigazaga]

JMF894 said:

Well the bolt n washer affair is the earth and the orangey/red is power. However.................if i connect the red and green wires from the aerial together then connect them to the orangey/red wire from the car the aerial goes up. If i then disconnect the green wire from the aerial from the red wire the aerial goes down. This means it's up permanently or down, it isn't controlled by the radio being on or off. The blue wire from the car that goes into the connector you see in my hand appears to do nothing.

Confused?

I am!

Have you tried this and then switch the ignition on and off?..

Can you put the make and model number of the radio up as well..Ta

Edited by mrzigazaga on Thursday 26th May 13:48

[Grady]

I thought my first replacement was defective and returned it.

Look at the wiring diagram for the new one and adjust the wiring at the radio end. I spliced the new ground, both powers and the antenna wires into radio side of the existing TVR connector. But I had to add a jumper to make it work - just don't recall what I had to jump now.

[JMF894]

SORTED!!!

Cheers for all the input guys.

managed to get the radio out after borrowing some pioneer removal tools from my local motorist discount shop.

A blue wire from the back of the unit labelled 'system remote' was disconnected from another identical wire that went into a large block connector with all the other radio cnnections.

Connected it and hey presto aerial goes up and down only when swithing radio on/off.

Jim