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Old 04-15-2012, 12:50 PM
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Originally Posted by X5Ghost View Post
Blkxer, fantastic DIY write up!! For those planning to do this, the write should make the job more doable!

Wat I don't understand and may be missed, is why do you have to tap into a seprate power source to illuminate the unit's buttons? Shouldn't those illuminated buttons be powered internally from the same power source that powers the unit itself? Why are they separate?
I'm not sure. I just know that the orange wire in the Fakra cable is for the button illuminations on the Dynavin (there is a red wire that is used as the power wire for the Dynavin). And in talking with Jeff from J&T Distributing where I bought my Dynavin from, he told me that the plug where the Fakra cable plugs into in the back where the nav radio is located (step #49) does not provide power for the orange wire on the Fakra cable for the button illuminations. Possibility is that the stock nav monitor uses a different wire from the harness for the MID connection located in the front dashboard (just a guess)? And so the easiest way is to use the red wire in the Fakra cable that is used to power the unit and tap the orange wire into it as a power source.

The other option if you want it to be truly on/off for the button illumination is to find a different power wire source to tap into that is sync'ed with the on/off interior lighting for day/night driving. I didn't bother with this approach because I wanted to keep the Fakra wires fully contained within itself, rather than having 1 wire lead out to somewhere else (plus it was less work this way to just tap the orange wire into the red wire)

Last edited by blkxer; 04-15-2012 at 01:20 PM.
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