Hello!
I recently replaced the center piece on my dash where the clock and center air ducts are. The end result, I have an extra dash clock. I thought it would be really cool to get it working (somehow) and use it as a desk clock. On the back are six pins that it used to connect up to the electrical:


Does anyone know how (or if) I could wire this up to connect to, say, a USB cord so it could run off of power (plugged to my PC or into a USB converter to a wall socket)? Is this even possible?

Thanks.

 

Why not just look a the electrical guide to see that there are 3 connections, Ground (earth) PLUS for clock and PLUS for dimmer controlled lighting?

 

Where would I find an electrical guide for this? Sorry for my ignorance ...

EDIT - Found the electrical guide. Now to find the clock ...

 

Found the clock in the electrical guide at 09.2 and 19.1. To be frank, I have no idea what I'm looking at. I don't see anything that looks like the six pins and, thus, don't know which is the power, which is the ground, etc. Sigh.

 

This is about all I can find on the clock (from the electrical guide):



I don't see anything that identifies the six pins and which one would be the ground and which would be the power (or the dimmer, though I don't need that one). I mean, I can see, from the above diagram, the ground and the power, but which pin do they go to? Sorry if I'm dense.

EDIT - I see designations like "IP19-6". Does that mean that the ground is on pin 6 of IP19 (which is the designation of the six-pins for the clock)? Does IP19-5 mean that power is on pin 5? And if that's the case, which is pin 1 (top-left)? And, if so, does it go 1,2,3 across the top and then 4,5,6 for the row beneath?

 

Okay, I pulled the back off the clock and the first pin appears to be labeled. It looks like this diagram that I made:


I am guessing that this means that the bottom-left pin is pin 1. So, then, which would be pin 2? The top-left? Would the two pins, furthest to the right, be pins 5 and 6 (5 on the bottom)?

 

The colors on the connector will tell you the ground and positive connections.
Black = ground
Red/White = lighting
Brown/White = positive

 

Thanks. But the clock is not in the car. It's on my desk. There wire that was in the car was connected to the new clock. It wasn't until I had the new vent/clock unit installed (and everything put back together), had cleaned up, and had looked at the clock lying there, that I thought it would make a fun desk clock. So, yeah ... not going to tear the dash apart to look at the wiring. That means all I have is clock, the back of which is shown in the first post (the photo). No way to tell, from that, where a red wire would go.

 

I don't see anything that identifies the connector pinout, but I would think that in your diagram, 3 would be the lower center pin, and 5 the lower right. 5 is ground, 6 is 12 volts. If you want to light the dial, voltage applies to pin 2, but I don't know that it's 12 volts for full bright, it may be as little as 5 volts there; that's an output from the Front Electronic Module and is not described, simply diagrammed.

 

 

OR.... You could sell me your old clock since mine just started GAINING time for some reason. Private Message me if you are interested.

Regards
Jeff

 

I was able to hook up an X-350 clock for bench testing. The pins on the PCB are numbered 123 from left to right starting with the labeled #1 pin. Then they go 456 across the upper row. Pin 5 is ground, Pin 6 is 12V to the clock and Pin 2 is 0-12V to the lamp. I ran it at just under 12 V and it keeps perfect time. The clock uses almost no current except for a brief surge once per minute when the hands move.


That's an old AMP 3 pin connector I found in a junk drawer at work. It just happened to fit perfectly and one of our techs even had the crimp tool for it! I didn't bother hooking up the lamp pin on the bottom row.

 

Awesome! Thanks for looking into this!