Hello, i bought a second hand Escort 8500 X50 which was hardwired but i like to use ciggy power plug. i can see it has 4 wire - red, green, black and yellow. am guessing Red and Green will need to be soldered above fuse and yellow and black is ground? Your help will be much appreciated. THanks
Red is your positive black is ground yellow constant power green is a wire that does not need to b used nor the yellow unless u want constant power to the unit positive red wire goes to the front of your ciggy adapter black can go on edit hie side of the two grounds that hold your ciggy adapter inside the socket hope this sheds some light on it
hey thanks a lot for that Chris. i wasn't just sure about the purpose of green and yellow. much appreciated.
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As other users said the cleaning took care of the issues. So I took their suggestions because nothing to lose. I took it apart. It is very easy. Just remove 3 crews at the bottom. It has one snap-in hook at one of the corners but easy to separate it. Then I removed the metal part (aluminum die-casted, silver color) from the PCB. It is easy to remove, just remove 6 screws (I think it is 6) then pull the thing out. Inside the aluminum die-cast part is dirty. If you clean inside with Q-tip, you can see the nasty stuff comes off. I think what happens is that the nasty dust comes off then stick on the sensing elements, which might have caused false signal. Also I cleaned tiny elements inside the metal piece with Q-tip. Now it seems working normal. Hope it stays normal. Give it a try if your unit does not act normal. Better than spending $$. Good luck!
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