Bench testing Car/Truck Radios

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davbell22602

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Does anyone know how to bench test a tube car/truck radio?
 

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Yea red and yellow wires hooked together on the positive side of the battery and black on negativewill power the radio up and then you can just hook up a speaker to each of the outputs to see if it crackles with static to know if you have sound coming out ofit.
 

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well with them your gonna need to know what the hot leads and ground are from the factory side of the harness
 

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And a radio of course.
 

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