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JeremyC
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DVD player question

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Hay I did a pioneer DVD player in this guys car today, and was curious what is the corect way to bipass the parking brake sensor. The manual says hook it to the positive side of the parking brake switch. To me that says it is looking for a ground once the circuit is complete (parking brake pulled up).

To make things more confusing, he gets audio with a dvd in, but no video.
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Post by ridr4lif »

If all it needs is a ground, then you should be able to use any old ground. Or use a switch of some sort.
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Yup, just ground it.
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Post by JeremyC »

Yeah thats what I figured, and what I did. No I need to figure out why he is getting audio, and not video.
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The newest Pioneer DVD's have a gyro/motion sensor in them which I've read that you can't get around.
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William from NOLA wrote:The newest Pioneer DVD's have a gyro/motion sensor in them which I've read that you can't get around.

Yeah it might be, but when we first got it up, we weren't moving, and we were still only getting audio. Honestly, I bet we missed something in the user manual. I did a little reserch, and I know its wired right, even the parking brake part. So it almost has to be a mode, or the deck is bad from factory. I wish I had more time to play with it, but I was in a hurry, and still had alot of work to do to my car,
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