Is the steering wheel remote control wiring connector on the Eclipse AVN 5500/6600 compatible with the F150 steering wheel remote controls? From the Eclipse install manual: For vehicles with voltage-detection type steering remote controls.

If not, do you need the PAC wired or wireless unit to have your steering wheel remote control buttons work with the Eclipse?

Where is the best place to get to the connections to the remote control button wiring? Guessing a good place is the second wiring harness to the factory head unit. First being for power and f/r speakers with the third being for factory the subwoofer.

 

Search SWI-ECL.

 

You can get the factory wheel signal from the main plug, off the top of my head I believe its pin 18 blue with red tracer. You can use the swi-ecl as a direct wire (no led to place) and have vol-up, vol-dwn, source, track-up, track-down. And you don't need an eclipse remote to program it. If you go with the swi-x you can program up to seven buttons anything you wish as long as they exist on an eclipse remote. You do need an eclipse remote to program it.

 

nothinbutford,

Many thanks for the reply. As always extremely helpful.

The wiring diagram on Metra's site does show pin 18 on the main as the steering wheel (+) so it is starting to make sense to an engineer.

Since all I currently can do is puruse the AVN 5500 installation manual I downloaded from the Fujitsu Ten website while waiting for my 6600, I see wiring leads for the steering wheel remote control on the back of the Eclipse head unit. I haven't found previous version manuals so are these leads new on the AVN5500 (and hopefully AVN6600) or have they been there on previous versions and this is where the swi-ecl is connected?

Best regards

 

Sorry to advertise my ignorance, but...I have a 5500 and just installed it. The 5500 does have a connector for the steering wheel controls. But, the manual does not tell you what Ford wires to connect nor did Crutchfield include an adapter. My question simply is what is a swi-ecl or swi-x? If you figure out how to connect the steering wheel controls, can you dumb down an explination for me (non-engineer). Thanks for the help.

 

The swi-x and swi-ecl are products made by pac www.pac-audio.com They are steering wheel control modules that convert the factory signals into some we can use on our aftermarket radios. The swi-x is a universal piece that takes the signal from the car and converts it to an infered signal that is sent to the radio just like a remote control. The swi-ecl is designed to work directly with the wires on your eclipse radio (brown and white, black is not used). You connect one side to the truck (blue/red pin 18) and the other to the eclipse and after a quick program your done.

 

Cool, thanks. I'll check it out.