Connex CX-4300HP CB Radio "hooked wrong" Questions

hooked cb to truck,keeps blowing inline fuse Your polarity protection diode has been blown. If you tried hooking up your CB and accidentally pushed the plug in backwards. Inside the radio, there are 2

...hooked up and wont transmitt or recieve what are some possable solutions check the swr's, if its new radio that should be the only thing. .. installed antenna system wrong. ie put the insulating ...

...hooked up to power backwards. When you hook up the positive and ground wires wrong, it will blow the polarity protection diode in the radio. The part is N1004 available at any radio shack. The number ...

...hooked up wrong how do i fix it Check your inline fuse. Hopefully that is all that is wrong. Or You may have blown the diode. Open the lid and see if there is a severly blackened remains of a ...

...hooked up wrong to the unit, the Diode will conduct (forward bias) with a lot of current and blow the fuse that is inline with the unit, you should be able to connect the Ohm meter to the positive ...

hooked my cb up to the wrong voltage and I blew it up How do i fix it? thanks whats wrong with it? what size fuse have you got? look at the circuit board on the solder side and lok for any burn marks.

I tried adding talkback/sidetone to my cb radio using a 47 ohm 1/2 watt resistor but it did not work. What have I done wrong? How did you hook it up? IT takes a 470 ohm resistor

...hooked up in my truck for about a week. It quit producing sound but everything else still works the same. What went wrong? Check the mic wiring in the connector, check inside the radio for ...

when i hook up my cobra29 LTd to my pickup it keeps blowing fuses. What do i need to do or whats wrong. HI, my name is John. Red to hot fuse under dash or battery and black to ground hope this was ...

...a diode in the unit that protects against polarity reversal. If it is ever hooked up wrong, the diode will short and the fuse will blow, the unit will not power back on until the diode is