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Kenwood DNX9140 Illumination to dim with instruments?

Has anyone successfully installed the illumination setup for Kenwood HU to work with 2009 Nismo 370z instruments? I tried setting it up in three different methods. None of them worked.

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Old 11-09-2011, 02:19 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Has anyone successfully installed the illumination setup for Kenwood HU to work with 2009 Nismo 370z instruments?

I tried setting it up in three different methods. None of them worked.

First, I connected illumination wire on Kenwood DNX9140 HU (orange/white) to Scosche harness adapter and this harness adapter connects to factory harness adapter (illumination wire basically connected to pin 9 on factory harness adapter). I then set the dimmer to "SYNC" in Kenwood HU setup. This method didnt work.

Second setup, I also hooked up the illumination wire straight to pin 8 (white wire) on factory harness adapter. So both pin 8 and pin 9 on factory harness adapter connected to illumination wire from HU. It didnt work also.

Lastly, I just disconnected (cut off) the orange wire from scosche adapter so that pin 9 is not connected to illumination wire and only pin 8 is. This wasn't successfully either.

Anyone has any idea on how to get it working properly? Thanks much!
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Old 11-10-2011, 02:41 AM   #2 (permalink)
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My metra harness works just fine with my kenwood headunit. Metra only supplies one wire for illumination ( pin 9 ), which is then connected to the kenwood illumination wire. Try removing pin 8 from the scosche harness.
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Your setup is the same as my first one. There's no pin 8 on the scosche harness. It's just empty.
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Did you ever figure this out? What you said here conflicts on what happened here:

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