I ended up trying to do something that I read. It can be found
here
Off the bat, I am not new to electronics so I don't think I was going in even close to over my head, but as of right now, my cdr 220 is not powering on.
These are the steps I took prior to me realizing it wasn't working.
-Removed bracket from changer.
-Removed power cord and confirmed that aux input appears instead of cd.
-Spliced the wire so I can see inside insulator to tell what I am dealing with. Saw 5 or 6 wires bundles within a copper braid.
-I saw multiple wires so I used my multimeter to test which one is the '+.' I went through all of them and still couldn't find a positive read.
-Plugged power cord back in (didn't hear the changer boot up)
Went inside to turn on power and now unit doesn't power on either.
What have I done? I don't understand this since I didn't even mess with any power cords other than for the cd changer. I don't smell smoke so I don't think anything fried. Even when I unplugged the power for the changer in the beginning the head unit at least still powerd on. Now it's not even doing that. I am very confused and I have a sick feeling right now. Please help.