Trailer lightning strikes?
After starting to go through my "new" 1995 Damon Hornet 27T and fixing all the little things, I found that the stock AM/FM/Tape didn't work. I pulled it out and checked for voltage and found nothing....
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Only thing I could think of was that the actual problem was in the original radio. If a short or overload there, it might have just overheated the wiring, with a failure at a high resistance spot whereever. might have been a tight binding, or a bend in the wire. Who knows? Glad you found it and got it fixed with no other damage. As you suspect, a power surge for some reason is a very good guess. I have seen nearby lighting cause a damaging surge, even without a direct hit. As the antenna wire was burned, that makes it even more suspect.
