head unit, killed battery over night

[puntoD]

installed head unit battery died!

when i replaced my stock tape player in my punto with a cd player, it doesnt go on/of with the car, i have to do it manually. also when it is turned of on a night i noticed it was ALL lit up and it was displaying the time on the screen. i havnt used my car for 2 days and went to start it up now and i can just hear the starter motor ticking. the central locking doesnt work either.

there is a loose red wire at the back of my head unit, but its just a lose red wire with exposed copper ends.

Where hsould this go, ?

 

[turbonutter69]

First of all how is it wired in? Red on the head unit should go to a live on the car. Depending on what head unit it is determines whether it should be permanent or switchable. And the yellow is the same.

 

[puntoD]

err, its nout special jsut a blaupunkt, till i fork out for a decent one, i bought it so i didnt have to listen to tapes lol. it connect exactly the same as my standard punt one. theres to black plugs, and a smaller blue one, then this random loose red wire

 

[turbonutter69]

The power wires are prob on the wrong way round. Has the red wire been cut from the plug?

 

[puntoD]

i lloks liek it must have been pulled, so the black are the power? il go have look now

 

[turbonutter69]

NO black should be the earth. Red and Yellow should be lives. One switchable and one permanent.

 

[puntoD]

ok so im lost lol, took some snaps of my leads and head unit

and they wont upload... so the red wire has a fuse along it and a bare copper end, the red wire comes of the BLUE plug, which also has a brown wire, with a clip on which i connected to a bare metal tab on the back of the head unit.

then there is a white plug with loads of wires, and a GREEN wire which is lvie right?

then a black lpug with loads of wires ut it has a purple one, other than that the wires from these plugs are the same colour

 

[turbonutter69]

Could do with pics to be honest.

 

[puntoD]

there we go