Fusion RA-70 Brown Wire

[Joshua Miller]

Trying to splice the wires for the install for this radio, but it came with a brown wire that my stock doesn’t have. Owners manual states that this is the Mute wire and activates when connected to ground. Does that mean I splice it into my ground (black) wire or somewhere else so that the radio connects it to ground when prompted?

 

[Dixie Highway]

No if you ground that wire it will always be on mute. Unless you have something that connects a ground to mute the stereo, then it’s likely not needed. I’d tape or cap it off if you don’t have a need for it. I guess you could connect it to a remote switch if you needed to mute the stereo from somewhere other than the helm?

 

[John Mcpartland]

Looks like it

 

[jacoviii]

No it is used by other devices to mute the radio. Like GPS notification, when going in reverse, or if a alarm was going off. It would mute the radio.

 

[JetPowered]

Exactly, use only If you have a device that you want to be able to MUTE the radio. I taped mine up and left it alone.