Your best bet is to run it directly to your cigarette lighter.
Because God only knows what professional electrician was in there before you.
Setup question Cobra 29 LTD Classic
Discussion in 'CB Radio Forum' started by TravR1, Jan 8, 2022.
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I will check it with a cigarette lighter adapter piece.
I reconnected my wires better this time and it's still not powering up.
It could be a pro electrician was in there messing around or my CB is shorted out.
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Like NS10 asked it is a good point by asking if your the original owner?
If not that could be the issue either a CB shop that did something wrong or someone in there basement with a new set of tiny hand tools that needed to be opened.
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Years ago, my Cobra went dead. I took my multimeter and went through my rig it seemed like forever trying to find the problem. The problem was the radio itself. A few months later, and a new Cobra, my neighbor who tinkers with this stuff, found that my Cobra was spiked once too many times. How, I really don't know. The new 29 worked great. Still have it, and that's been years ago. So, your problem maybe is the radio itself. Suggestion: find a used radio, any radio, and hook it up. If that radio works, then it's your Cobra that's bad.
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I bought a cigarette lighter adapter piece and plug that in. My CB powered up. So the problem is the line from the battery.
I can't leave it powered to the lighter port because I only have two of those. And I don't know where/how I would mount it.
I'll ask the mechanic at the shop if he can fix it. I need it working for escorts and such. -
Ok good deal glad you got it figured out, process of elimination.
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