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Need help connecting my Vic3-Lite to my mt-6352/vrc Radio tray for Power

Wire Fox

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Fortunately, this is easy!

You need a CX-13468 to connect from that base to your MCS ($50-75 for this cable).

You then need a CX-4720 to go from the radio tray to your batteries. ($Free scrap-$25)



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Ok and if i dont have power for the vic3 connecting that way, i guess the power unit is broken right?! My cable are working with an okder 1777 radio tray...

Fortunately, this is easy!

You need a CX-13468 to connect from that base to your MCS ($50-75 for this cable).

You then need a CX-4720 to go from the radio tray to your batteries. ($Free scrap-$25)



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Wire Fox

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Ok and if i dont have power for the vic3 connecting that way, i guess the power unit is broken right?! My cable are working with an okder 1777 radio tray...
Let me re-check something. I feel like there was a note somewhere about the polarity of the cable being critical and different from normal. Will report back soon...
 

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Looks like the CX-13302 and CX-4720 should wire up the same in the end... The CX-13302 is what came pre-installed in my HMMWV. I'm going to recommend testing things out with a multimeter / voltage meter. Pin A and the shell are tied to ground. Pin B is tied to the positive terminal of the battery. If your cable is good, plug it into the mount and test the output pins of the mount where 86humv shows the power out to the VIC-3. Again, Pin A is going to be ground, Pin B will be positive. That still good? Plug in your CX-13468 and test the MCS-side of the cable. This will reverse from everywhere else: Pin A should be positive, Pin B should be negative. Its been stated that the system is reverse polarity protected, so if anything went wrong somewhere along the way, your MCS should be undamaged. All that good? Then either you have a failure in your MCS, or a cable is slightly damaged to where it shows voltage, but can't actually pass enough current to operate the unit.

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Wire Fox

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Not sure what you mean by A4J1 and A4J2 (I may just be missing a detail that should be obvious). As to what information I have, it's based off of what I've read on the connectors from prc68.com (A very good resource for mil radio information) and the VIC-3 TM. I don't have anything setup in front of me to be able to confirm or deny the claims made.
 
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