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Melting Slicks
Joined: Mar 2004
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From: NCCO Oklahoma
The Orange wire from the PAC adapter is the Illumination wire. Illumination and Dimmer (orange and white wire) are similar in that they are designed to tell a head unit that the dash lights/headlights are turned on. The Kenwood deck uses the Orange/White Dimmer wire, so you can simply tape off the Orange wire and ignore it.
The Parking Sensor wire (light green) is used to let the head unit know that you have the parking brake applied. That allows the head unit to turn on/off certain functions, depending on whether or not you are driving (eyes on the road, please) or parked. Think of it as a nanny... you're allowed to do whatever you want if you're parked, but if you're driving you can forget about it. (Like watching a movie, for example.) You would normally wire this to the parking brake switch, located next to the parking brake handle.
Some people will simply ground this wire to make the head unit think it's parked all the time. Some manufacturers got 'smart' to this and make you toggle the brake on/off/on to make it work. (Pioneer did this in my HU.) So if you want to bypass this feature, you can install a switch, or get a special 'adapter' that does the toggle for you.
The Reverse Sensor wire lets the head unit know that you put the car into reverse. This is good if you have a reverse camera and want the head unit to automatically toggle to your rear camera while backing up, then toggle back to the main screen when you drive off. This would normally be connected to the reverse switch/reverse lights. If you don't have a reverse camera, you can simply tape it off and ignore it.
Hope this helps.
The Parking Sensor wire (light green) is used to let the head unit know that you have the parking brake applied. That allows the head unit to turn on/off certain functions, depending on whether or not you are driving (eyes on the road, please) or parked. Think of it as a nanny... you're allowed to do whatever you want if you're parked, but if you're driving you can forget about it. (Like watching a movie, for example.) You would normally wire this to the parking brake switch, located next to the parking brake handle.
Some people will simply ground this wire to make the head unit think it's parked all the time. Some manufacturers got 'smart' to this and make you toggle the brake on/off/on to make it work. (Pioneer did this in my HU.) So if you want to bypass this feature, you can install a switch, or get a special 'adapter' that does the toggle for you.
The Reverse Sensor wire lets the head unit know that you put the car into reverse. This is good if you have a reverse camera and want the head unit to automatically toggle to your rear camera while backing up, then toggle back to the main screen when you drive off. This would normally be connected to the reverse switch/reverse lights. If you don't have a reverse camera, you can simply tape it off and ignore it.
Hope this helps.
