Questions and Answers
Accord Antenna Replacement
Q. Hey, Vince it's Mike. I've got a question about a power antenna on a 1994 Honda Accord. I bought an aftermarket kit. There was three wires in the trunk. One was a white yellow, the next was a yellow white the third one was a black. I tested them between one of them and the black I got 12 volts with the radio on. Between the other and the ground I got 0.6 volts or something around there.
I tested the antenna with the car battery ran the black lead to ground and the red to the positive then touched the blue and the red together and the antenna went up, when disconnected the blue it went down. I tried to find a switched power line in the trunk so I could try to get it to work like that. I found two wires with twelve volts in addition to one antenna lead.
I tried to hook up the antenna between the power wire and ground. The relay clicked but the antenna did not go up, I tested it the way I did earlier and it worked fine. I need to run a power wire off of something to the trunk. I tried the trailer harness plug no good. I wanted to put in stationary antenna but I could not find one that would work with the shape of the body of the Accord. Did these wires not have enough current to start the antenna motor.
Thanks,
MikeA. The yellow/white wire is the on/off signal from the radio and goes to pin 2 of the antenna connector. The white/yellow wire is power for the antenna motor and goes to pin 1. The black wire is the ground and pin 3. The white/yellow is hot all the time. The yellow/white is hot with the key AND radio on.
I don't know what brand of power antenna you have or how it's wired even if I did know. So I can't help you with that end of the stick.
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