Radio always on.

When I bought our Winnie, the radios were off, of course I tried them and the pushed the power button. The darn things were still on. I messed with them and found out holding down the power button for 5 or 10 seconds turned off everything but the clock and memory.

RoyB wrote:
I did something almost the same here with my JENSEN Car radio install on my POPUP trailer. It has two hot wires and both were tied to 12VDC so when it gets turned off it looses all the setting etc... Then when I first hookup at the camp ground I have to go thru all of the setting etc...

I picked a panel ON-OFF switch from radio Shack when they was still around and installed in the ignition key wire. Then when we get to the camp ground I can turn on the whole radio with the switch on the radio and then use the new switch to turn on and off the radio like you would do in your car. With the main part of the radio still ON all the time it remembers the last settings.

Of course most of the setting have to changed anyway from one area to another but at least while you are at the one site you can turn the radio on and off and retain the last settings you had in.



Roy Ken

Radio Shack is still around. They just shut down half of the stores. you might still be able to find this switch if you check .

I did something almost the same here with my JENSEN Car radio install on my POPUP trailer. It has two hot wires and both were tied to 12VDC so when it gets turned off it looses all the setting etc... Then when I first hookup at the camp ground I have to go thru all of the setting etc...

I picked a panel ON-OFF switch from radio Shack when they was still around and installed in the ignition key wire. Then when we get to the camp ground I can turn on the whole radio with the switch on the radio and then use the new switch to turn on and off the radio like you would do in your car. With the main part of the radio still ON all the time it remembers the last settings.

Of course most of the setting have to changed anyway from one area to another but at least while you are at the one site you can turn the radio on and off and retain the last settings you had in.



Roy Ken

Find the power in supply and cut it. They're nothing but junk anyway

I had one that was always on standby and I didn't like the idea of it pulling from the battery when I was not using it. So I got myself a switch from an auto supply store and put it in on the positive line to the radio and now when I turn it off, it is off. No parasitic draw from the battery