How to Wire an IVA-W205
You can manually wire the Alpine IVA-W205 mobile multimedia station to work with the systems in your vehicle. Typically you would plug the wiring harness from the IVA-W205 into an adapter that will interface with your vehicle, but if no adapter is available, you can solder the connections yourself. Soldered connections are more secure and last longer in the vehicular environment, which can be exposed to extreme heat and cold due to weather.
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Things You'll Need
- Wire cutters
- Wires stripper
- Solder
- Soldering iron
- Heat-shrink tubing
- Heat gun
- Electrical tape
Instructions
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Disconnect the negative battery cable from the vehicle.
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Locate the vehicle audio wiring. Find the wiring colors in your owner's manual. Cut off the old connector from the audio system wiring harness. Strip the last half-inch of insulation from the wires. Do the same for the wires on the IVA-W205 wiring harness.
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Slide a 2-inch section of heat-shrink tubing over each of the wires on the Alpine wiring harness.
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Match the white wire from the Alpine harness to the left-front positive speaker wire for your vehicle. Twist the wires together. Touch the bare metal with the soldering iron until it's hot and then touch it with the solder so that a drop or two melts off and coats the wires. Use the process to make all of the harness connections.
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Connect the white-black wire to the left-front negative speaker. Solder the green wire to the left-rear positive and the green-black to the left-rear negative wire. Attach the violet to the right-rear positive and the violet-black to the right-rear negative. Solder the gray wire to the right-front positive and the gray-black to the right-rear negative.
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Connect the black wire to the electrical ground. Attach the yellow wire to the battery or constant power and the red wire to the ignition or switched power. Attach the yellow-black wire to the foot-brake indicator and the yellow-blue wire to the parking-brake indicator. Pink-black connects to the mute wire so phone calls can interrupt the audio. Blue goes to the power antenna control, if you have that on your vehicle and blue-white connects to the amplifier. Note that if you don't have some of these features on your vehicle, tape over the exposed wire and leave it unconnected.
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Connect the vehicle antenna to the port on the top-right of the Alpine unit. Connect any optional inputs and outputs such as the iPod adapter or the video input and output cable.
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Reattach the negative battery cable.
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Tips & Warnings
If you're using amplifiers, skip the speaker wire connections on the wiring harness. Use shielded RCA cable to connect the ports on the back-right of the IVA-W205 to the amps. The top set go to the rear amp, the middle set to the front amp and the bottom set to the subwoofer amp.
Wire the optional reverse camera display. The separate harness has a white-pink wire that connects to a monitor control. The orange-white wire connects to the reverse indicator on the vehicle and the white-brown wires connect to the remote input and output from the reverse camera.
