Riptide101

Bought a Kenwood KVT-911 off of eby recently. Basically it is an indash TV/DVD player with a 7 inch screen. I bought it used with everything included.

I have about 12 different hondas so I have done alot of removing and installing radios in and out of cars(no I'm not a thief). I have wired everything up and can't seem to get the unit to turn on. WHen I hit the button to open the dvd player, the red reset light comes on so I know I have power but can't seem to get the player to work. Then I look at all my connections and realize I have one wire not connected. Its a green wire. I've never had to connect a green wire before to install a radio so I look it up and find this. Then I remembered that it is supposably illegal to drive and have a indash dvd player working and that most places wire it up somehow to the emergency brake. Basically the player won't work unless the e-brake is on. I am hoping this is the reason why my player won't work. My question is, how do I hook up the green wire properly. And then how do I hook it up illegally so I can use the player while the car is going. This is what the pic says about the green wire.

ExodusFX

If you take your e-brake console apart, you will see a small switch connected to the e-brake lever. There will be a wire going to that switch. When tested with a multimeter, it reads ground when the e-brake is pulled up. You tap the green wire of your Kenwood to that wire on the e-brake switch.

To bypass on some units, just ground the green wire and all will be fine. Some manufacturers require an e-brake sequence (ex: up, down up) so you will have to wire the green wire to a flip switch to ground, to simulate it. Other's use different sequences & foot brake combinations. I'm pretty sure you just ground the wire on your Kenwood though.

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Riptide101

Thanks. I was just getting mixed responses from other boards. Some said to ground it, some said to put it to a 12v source. Did not want to do the wrong thing.

blklude98

Just ground that wire..i've installed a couple of that model and it works like a charm.

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Riptide101

Greta. Thanks. Do you happen to know what it does if that wire isn't connected.

ExodusFX

You wont have any video playback on the screen. It's a safetly measure to keep people from staring at the screen, watching movies, while they drive.

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