[HumbleAg]

Thanks f5 for the advice, the ground was the first thing I thought of. By the way, I have a printout of your Z1 install post that I am using as my guideline, I plan to give you credit in the footnotes when I post pictures.

I was using a separate ground for the radio, but the neucleus gets its ground from the original wiring (part of their harness). I checked and have virtually no resistance between the two, so I think the ground is ok. I'm using their "pass through" ground to ground the e-brake input and bypass input (but I did try disconnecting those to make sure they weren't an issue).

Talked to Neucleus tech support and the guy thinks I might have just gotten a bad unit. Now we are in the "go back to the ebay vendor to see if they'll make it right" stage. If they don't I'm sure the factory guy will, he seemed to cringe when I mentioned going to Peripheral. I guess it is my fault for going with a somewhat unknown item, but it was cheap.

A bit disappointing, since I'm so excited now I can't really stand it. I don't want to complete the install until I know it all works, I'm afraid the popping might be bad for the speakers and/or amp.

For now I'm impatiently waiting....