I'm about to pick up an Alpine CDA-9887 tomorrow from Craigslist. Is there any way to check if it works without plugging it into a car? I wanna see if it at least power on.

...or am I outta luck and just have to hope I dont get ****ed. The only reason I ask is because I got a helluva deal on it.

 

Sure. Power it up, pop in a CD, hook up at least one speaker, and go.

 

exacly
red and yellow to 12 volt battery
black to ground

 

You can do as Stealth suggested, or if you can get your hands on a DC power adapter or supply you can always set it to 12V and just follow the positive, negative and ground method.

 

A simple way to do this is to obtain either a cable with spring loaded clips to clip on to a battery (BE SURE TO HAVE A FUSE ON IT) or use a 12V lighter plug pigtail assembly with a fuse built in. You do sort of need to know what you are doing. Just the fact that you are asking this makes me a little uncomfortable as the answer to your question is rather obvious if you are car stereo literate.

 

 

I'm a car stero illiterate lol. I already bought it. Dude works for the pentagon, and was wearing a military uniform when we were exchanging so I don't think he sold me a crappy unit.

The CDA-9887 is sexy! I finally finished my sound system setup!!