Illumination Fuse blowing
03-20-04, 01:16 PM
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Illumination Fuse blowing
i narrowed the fuse problem down this morning. I put in a new fuse and turned on the lights without the deck hooked up, then connected the lighter and everything instantly went out. So it definitely has something to do with the lighter. But now I turn on the lights without the lighter and it keeps blowing. So it just must be power going through the lighter somehow and I connected the circuit which made it blow. Any ideas suggestions? So what I originally thought was a deck problem is not. And I know it is because they put in a new deck, it must have moved an open wire or something or grounded something wrong. This is really frustrating I can't even drive at night with music playing and if they keep blowing whenever I turn on my headlights I can't drive at night period. Please help thanks!
03-20-04, 01:54 PM
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have you done something with the shifter? I had the same problem after installing my tranny back up and the wire that went to the ashtray light got pinch on the shifter and kept blowing my fuse
03-20-04, 03:29 PM
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No havnt touched the shifter. Only installed the deck. The deck is grounded to the lighter tapped into the actually ground wire from the lighter. But done proffessionally. I think the hot wire is crossing with the ground wire at some point. Although of course the place that installed it thinks its just coincedence it happened at the same time.
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one more thing. It's grounded directly into the ground wire on the lighter. but it's still blowing even when the decks not connected... Im confused. So it's not a deck problem and it's possible that two wires are crossing but they did a good job capping off open wires. One more piece of info is that the deck illumination wire is going to the hazard fuse, and it also has an inline fuse but none of those are blowing. So I really dont think its fully related to the deck I think its related to the deck being installed into the lighter. I really need some help.
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03-20-04, 07:37 PM
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One more thing, would bare speaker wire being crossed cause illum fuse to blow??? because I took out my door speaks and its bare wire at the very tip. Might be the problem. Im not to bright in this area though.
03-21-04, 06:16 PM
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Sounds like something wasnt wired correctly from the begining. Has it done this ever since its been installed? Did you install it or them?
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Did it do it right after they installed it? Or has it been some time? If so how much? What kind of shop is it, a little place or a big chain electronics store?
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Its a smaller place that does good work. And it did it right after they installed it. The more I think about it the more I'm gonna start getting pissed and make them fix it.
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