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NX-800 power button not working

mikelimayankee

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Good evening, I just purchased a couple of NX-800 units for use with my offroad club. They came from a school bus fleet. I am trying to figure out why the power buttons don't work.

The radios all come on the moment 12v is applied to the main power leads, with no power to the ignition sense lead. The power switch does not turn the radios off or on. The radios came with Ignition Sense turned off. When I configure Ignition Sense to "Ignition and Switch", ignition sensing works as expected but the power switch still doesn't do anything. "Power Switch Status Memory" also does nothing in either setting.

I opened up the faceplate and was not able to detect any physical changes to the power switch on the faceplate. In all other ways, the radio works as expected. All three radios I purchased share this behavior, which leads me to believe it was an intentional modification in that fleet. I am curious if anyone has any ideas of how to undo that change so the power button works normally? Thank you!
 
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