I just finished my whole battery box setup and then all of a sudden all this smoke came form under my hood. I unplug the battery real quick and freak out. The wiring harness on my haltech fried. The harness was not plugged into the haltech, thank god!! None of the wires going to the haltech were fried, just one wire going from one of the relays to the haltech big connection port, SO what the **** happened??? In order for that to occur one of the wires had to be touching ground, if the haltech wasn't plugged in WTF? I may try and salavge the harness, just rewire the relay and patch up the wires that it touched, I am really ******* pist right now.

 

God im about to shoot someone wtf happened! Can i buy a new wiring harness? Just the harness? All my sensors and everthing else is fine...

 

I think you can just buy the harness. but I don't know how much it is.. Now you will definately want to double and triple check everything cuz you don't want to fry the haltech..

 

yea no **** those things are expensive, like 1400.00 or so. dose that sound about right? i dunno i own a NA

 

Maybe a bad harness?

 

Thats what I am saving up for now.. and then the REPU will be complete..

 

That has gone through my mind, cuz how the **** would that happen unless some of the wires inside the harness were touching each other, I think what caused it is somehow one of the wires was grounded, and by grounding it completed the circuit of the battery and couldn't handle all the amps, cuz the wire was so small and then started friing, Cuz if the wire went from the battery to the relay to the haltech, and the haltech wasn't plugged in, how else would the wire ground? Yea im ticked, i think i am going to try and replace the burnt wires, but I want to know how the **** this happened, cuz ok i replace all the wires the same **** might happen again.

 

bummer man, sorry to hear it.



I powered mine up and got it online before installing it in the car, using a AT PC power supply for the +12VDC. You might want to try that first instead of going straight to the battery next time... the AT power supply won't put out the amps a car battery will, and is protected in the event of a short.



Let us know what you find was the cause, I'm very curious as I've been doing alot of tinkering with my E6K on the PC power supply with the harness scattered all over the living room while working on my lcd gauges. I would hate to have a short like that happen.

 

Well the wire the cooked was the one that went from the main power relay to the haltech port connection, I am going to email Haltech tonight, i can't figure out why it happened.