Just bought my first JK off this guy. He has the CB being powered by my outlet on the drivers side. But I no longer can use that outlet. How do I go about changing the cb from that to my battery and be able to use my power outlet again? Thanks for the help in advanced. I'm new to this stuff haha
The CB should be just two wires, a 12V+ and NEG. If you cut the adapter off the end and strip those wire you can extended them and run them to the battery. Just make sure you fuse the + properly. Technically you can just ground the NEG somewhere but you don't want static so the battery might be better. Maybe a CB expert will jump in and clarify that part. Good Luck!
That's what I want to do. Just got to figure out how to unwire it from the power outlet first. The PO wired it to that but now I don't have my power outlet available to use and that's something I need. So I'm trying to figure out how to rewire that back up also. Haven't had time to pull the dash yet and work on the wiring issue or even see what kind of mess is there
Usually the power outlets just have blade connectors on the back. If he unplugged those and attached them to the cb wires, you should be able to just disconnect them from the cb wires and plug them back onto the power outlet. If he cut the wires, then you can just reconnect them using a butt connector (lazy way) or wrap them, solder, and shrink tube (better). Usually the positive and negative are different size blades but if not, the outer ring in the power outlet is ground and the center pin is positive. Once that is done, run the power and ground from the cb to the battery and fuse it with an inline fuse as others have said.
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