RTP-area local music and culture

[John Iwaniszek <not AT hotmail.com>]

Christiane Voisin wrote:

> Thanks so much Ron, James and Will for these suggestions. Thanks to
> you James for being willing to ask your electronics instructor about
> it. 
> 
> I've had the battery, which was old and bad, replaced... didn't help.
> I don't have a manual (i am third owner of this bad boy). o,
> technology... i have no magic little hole for paperclip insertion and
> i'm a typical woman not knowing what the heck to do with a fuse.  i
> don't think i want to do any ziplock freezy reset :-) but that's
> entertaining. 
> 
> xiane
> 
> On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, ron thigpen wrote:
> 
>> Christiane Voisin wrote:
>>> I am having electrical problems in my 1994 Honda Civic.
>> 
>> CD player may not be getting enough juice to be able to take the
>> code. Try hooking yourself up as if for a jumpstart, then try the
>> code again. 
>> 
>> If the CD isn't taking the code, it may have 'forgotten' it and
>> reverted to a default.  If you aren't risking locking yourself out
>> entirely with too many retrys (read the manual), you could try
>> entering obvious default codes like '00000'.
>> 
>> Some lore exists indicating that you can take a code-locked player,
>> seal it in a Ziploc and freeze it for awhile to reset the codes. 
>> Sketchy, and maybe specific to certain players, but there it is. 
>> 
>> As for the rest, sounds like an undervoltage situation.  Lots of
>> potential causes, battery may be getting weak, voltage regulator
>> going, bad grounding, etc.  This sort of thing, an auto repair place
>> may be able to deal with. 
>> 


I might get thrown out of the club, but I am going to let you in on a 
closely held men's secret:  We usually don't know what's going on with 
the fuse boxes either, but we fake it.  Give it a look.  The brown crusty 
one is the one that is damaged.