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I have a Maratrac siren with the cable hkn4338a.
I’ve read that these sirens could be used without
The radio . The cable has a green/orange wires so
The green is to constant 12 volts and orange to
switched 12 volts ?. Tried hooking it up but no
power to the dek control . I do have a vhf maratrac
and it has the small cable that goes from the dek to radio
head . Any information would be appreciated.
 
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Green and Orange are for the control head and relay. You need to get 12 volts into the chassis. The DEK jumper/Maratrac control cable should have a larger gauge power and ground coming off of it. Those need to be hooked up.
 

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Yes there's other posts on this same siren where others had issues
Green and Orange are for the control head and relay. You need to get 12 volts into the chassis. The DEK jumper/Maratrac control cable should have a larger gauge power and ground coming off of it. Those need to be hooked up.
Green and Orange are for the control head and relay. You need to get 12 volts into the chassis. The DEK jumper/Maratrac control cable should have a larger gauge power and ground coming off of it. Those need to be hooked up.
Yes the red/and black wires were connected correctly, again are these units meant to work with the a7 control head ?
 

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I think I have that same hkn4338a cable, unlabeled. It shipped from ebay seller with an X9000 radio as a radio control cable and did nothing. Be sure what you have is the correct cable part number and not an X9000 control cable.
 

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I got the siren to work it won’t work
On its own when connected to the a7
Control head all functions worked
 
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