Radio Mystery

[Andrew Howes]

My radio/cassette (1990 Panasonic) suddenly stopped working . I went through
the lengthy procedure to take it out. I thought the power was OK because there
were sparks from the earth cable when I touched the back of the radio. Also
when I plugged the power into the radio the tape made a whirring noise.

The fuse inside the radio was fine. So I bought a second hand radio, but when
I plugged that in the same thing. Noises from the cassette but no lights.

I looked all over the internet for inspiration and discovered something that
said the 94 Miata uses both the Cigar and Room fuses. Although mine is a 1990
I thought it seems odd to use two fuses, then I thought as there are two big
plugs on the back of the radio perhaps one takes power via one fuse and the
other uses the second fuse.

I took out the two fuses and they both looked fine, but I then tested them and
one didn't work.

So the 'cigar 15A ' fuse looks after the radio part, and the 'room 10A' fuse
looks after the cassette part.

Thought this might be useful if anyone else experiences the same thing.