PabStang

Hey,
Im going from my 2006 Gt Shaker500 to Pioneer Appradio using PAC C2R-FRD1
The PAC connector has: brake, reverse and illumination wires in it.

1) Do I connect my Pioneer HU's brake and reverse wires to them or do I have to tap somewhere els? (I understand that if I had a ford SUV with dvd and back up camera the SUV would be prewired for those, but a Mustang does not have either)

2) I always heard nightmares about using the "illumination" wire on aftermarket HUs, is the PAC safe? shoild I connect that wire too?

Im not bypassing the brake wire until there is a hack for the Appradio.
(The Appradio knows through the iPhone when you are moving, there for the bypass is not going to work)
Please please let me know.

Thank you!!

PabStang

Got it, hook everything up and it works.

Dineau

I would strongly suggest that you put a diode in serie with the amp powe on wire . Failure to do this can cause you radio to shut down if you drive the amps a bit too hard.

Dineau

Here's the details regarding this issue:

After a little bit of diagnosis/trouble shooting with an engineer at PAC we found that the Shaker amps are backfeeding 12v into the C2R-FRD1 unit when at high load (we speculate this was originaly to tell the Ford HU to lower volume output). This is causing an overvolt condition in the C2R-FRD1, the elctronics are designed to operate at 5v. So when 10+v was put into the unit the chips started to malfuniction and then shut down. The Diode keeps the voltage from backfeeding the unit, I used a 1N4005. I think you can get these at your local Radio $hack, we have several thousand on hand LOL! Anyway the diode did the trick, no more cut-outs, no more reboots! YAY~~~~~


You can read the full discussion and the solution is on page 3


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ricco333

I just did mine, i installed an AVH-P4300DVD and did the diode fix, you can get the intructions including a diagram from the PAC website, when you select the C2R-FRD1 under technical bulletins are the instructions and diagram on how to wire the diode, all crystal clear.