electric aerial

mattymartin · Post by **mattymartin** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:37 am

hey guys,

i have just found a chrome electric aerial, i was just wondering if the motor is ok under the front guard, (where the standard one once was)...

the aerial that i got is from a toyota cressida, in the toyota it was in the boot, so i just need to know is it going to be ok under the front guards. with all the shit that comes off the tryes, mud, rocks, water, etc...

does it need to be protected from these elements some how....

thanks
matty martin

rosco · Post by **rosco** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:32 am

Hi again Matty,
there have been many of this type fitted to our vehicles - the ones I have probably seen more of lately are commodore - recessed into the guard.
As for under body exposure - modern vehicles seem to have an inner guard which creates a protected cavity - this is where electric aerials are usually located.
I suppose if you want to go this way, you could provide some form of box shield - at the end of the day - there will always be available electric aerials from the wreckers............... more than FB or EK's to choose parts from.....

frats,
Rosco

Craig · Post by **Craig** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:51 pm

Just be carful Matty if your radio has an arial control wire use this to trigger a relay to drive the arial as I know the arial control on mine is only rated at 300mA @ 12v

Craig · Post by **Craig** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:03 pm

Craig wrote:Just be carful Matty if your radio has an arial control wire use this to trigger a relay to drive the arial as I know the arial control on mine is only rated at 300mA @ 12v

Just cheked the electric arial I have to get around to connecting must have a built in relay as ther are three wires one for ground one for constant 12v+ one for the 12v+ trigger