stevie_b Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 You could just rewire the power for the Antenna so it's just controlled by the switch. The motor itself works with 2 wires when one is 12v and the other is 0 it goes up and vice versa Are you suggesting reversing the polarity of the motor's power wires? If so that's an unusual and potentially dangerous thing to do. You'd have to be really careful that the switch could never feed 12v down the "earth" wire whilst it is still connected to the car's actual earth. It might work but I wouldn't recommend it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanisLupus Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 (edited) I've read the electrical diagrams and am currently(becaus my factory box is not working) retracting and extracting the antenna "manually" via a 12v battery and wires. The motor has two pins which connected one way cause the antenna to go up and reverse to get the antenna down It's simply a motor nothing more so you could rewire the whole thing to work just over a switch, nothing to do with what the radio wants. That way when you switch on upping the antenna and let's say cutting power at half you can also control how long the antenna is etc Edited January 20, 2012 by CanisLupus (see edit history) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
straightsix Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Why would you want your aerial at half-mast? To show respect if someone dies?? Surely it would just look like your aerial was broken.....? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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