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Old 3rd Nov 2009, 9:24 pm   #15
Jimmyhaflinger
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Default Re: Car 8 track advice!

this is a Japanese unit, Mustang was one of many generic names that were slapped on this kind of players.

Like many japanese players it has the round 4 pin socket, the colours are always the same: red= +12v, green=left spk, grey=right spk, black=chassis ground, instead of replacing the socket and ruining the originality of the player, why don't you just stick 4 stripped wires of suitable size in the socket holes?

if you check with a multimeter you'll see that the black wire measures dead short to the metal chassis.

The ground in 70s players is almost always negative, with some earlier units having a selectable ground polarity, as most cars by then had negative ground 12v electrics, only really archaic cars like early vw beetles have 6v and/or positive ground electrics

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