The audio components consist of an Alpine TDA-7554 am/fm cassette receiver rated at 35 watts per channel (inset Audio_A),
a wireless remote control mounted on the valance above the rear bench seat (Audio_C) and an Alpine CHA-S604 compact disc changer
installed below the front passenger seat (Audio_B); access to this space can be achieved by pulling back the carpet and cutting
away the sheet metal.
Boston Acoustics Pro Series 5.5 components are installed in the front doors (Audio_A) and 4.5's in the ceiling cabinet over the rear deck
mattress (Audio_D). The speaker grills were painted with a chocolate brown enamel and baked in the oven 'till golden brown'
to get a good hard finish on them. The rear speakers require an additional ground wire. This can be accomplished by pulling
two new wires using one of the three original rear speaker wires. This task can be made easier by coating the wires to be
pulled with liquid dish soap.
The wireless remote requires that the deck have 40ma (.04 amp) current flowing to it continuously in order
to function. If the van is kept garaged between trips, then over the course of a month this phantom load would add up to about
30 amps, which would pull the house battery down. Therefore a new rocker switch is installed on the dash below the hazard
light switch. It is connected between the house battery and the wire coming out of the stereo that is labeled ignition.
An FM Modulator is installed inline with the car antenna. It gets its power from the wire coming out of the
stereo that is labeled power antenna. By tuning the stereo to one of two FM frequencies (select switch on the modulator) the
stereo can be driven with any audio source, for example, the audio out from the DSS receiver.
