need help asap

[bradvt98]

i need to get my car back in one piece asap
i got the screen for my jvc dvd player today all was well until i turned it on got sound but got this with handbrake connected :



so i disconnected and tried to earth the handbrake wire and got this same message but different screen it's really giving me the shits any help would be appreciated



here's the handbrake wire i spliced into at this stage the handbrake wire was disconnected

[Sir-Psycho-Sexy]

The simple thing would just be to check that you are using the correct wire from the wiring harness

[Car Audio Factory Outlet]

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The correct handbrake wire for the JVC is LIGHT GREEN -- the GREEN lead with the brown slashs around it is your HANDBRAKE LEAD -- which you can just earth to give you a signal..... some application on the HANDBRAKE trigger it will cause that signal.... though on a COMMODE it would be more likely that you are putting it to the + side of the switch and it should be on the - side......

Fix it to a good earth first before splicing in , as it may be the splice as well not making the jumper correctly

THOUGHS SPLICERS should all be throwen in the BIN!!!!!... I would say this is your PROBLEM>>>>>

.....do you have the BROWN LEAD SPLICED IN ???? as it is the Phone Mute lead

[bradvt98]

i used the correct wire the green one and I spliced it to the brown and white one which was connected to here on the handbrake and followed through to where i put the splice in the pic above



I think you are right with what you said ^^ there is only the one wire on the handbrake which is obviously a + i was thinking shouldn't there be two but the - is ovbviously elsewhere behind the dash I was connecting to the + so i would need an earth to come off it as well wouldn't I ? it makes sense now i'll try it in the morning

[Tasmaniak]

Can Iask a question and I'm quessing it is wrong otherwise somebody else would've already picked it up.....but did you find that wire inside that yellow tubing? Because to me...that yellow tubing looks a lot SRS AIRBAG wiring.

[bradvt98]

no it's not it's seperate trust me i made sure i cut the right one it leads straight to the handbrake

[Car Audio Factory Outlet]

no it's not it's seperate trust me i made sure i cut the right one it leads straight to the handbrake

Righty OH!!

The brown wire is a + when you have the handbrake engaged it makes contact with the negative (the body) as the metal contact is bolted to the body creating an EARTH!! --- hence causing a circuit.

if you splice the light green wire to the brown you will be running a positive to the green wire hence it will not work

My solution would be just find a good earth and connect it to that... even a "O" crimp and screw it to the body etc.

Though not legal... you are not going to watch the DVD while driving are you!!!!

[bradvt98]

no not that either problem's now solved I forgot about the other handbrake wire coming off the dvd unit itself had to be connected aswell as the screen one it's always the simplest thing that i seem to forgot oh well it's done now but it was a bitch to get in I think i'll just pay someone next time there aint much room to put alot of wires behind the units took alot of stuffing around



Thanks for trying to help

[Car Audio Factory Outlet]

I thought that would be the first thing that you would have checked... though all well and go in hind sight

You will enjoy the JVC as there sound quality output is supreb

Cheers

[bradvt98]

yeah i miss the simplest of things i did see that wire and just thought no i've already wired the dvd unit because it's been in for some time now i thought it was all good to go anyway i'm very happy it with it so far