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03-19-2003, 10:22 PM
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Originally Posted by 1Revvin7' date='Mar 19 2003, 08:14 PM
why would so many amps being traveling throught the wires anyhow? What determines how many amps is going through the circuit anyhow? Doesn't whatever is doing the pulling, ie: efan determine that? But what about in this case...
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03-19-2003, 10:39 PM
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Originally Posted by j9fd3s' date='Mar 19 2003, 11:22 PM
well the battery is capable of putting like 100+amps into anything it can find as a ground
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03-20-2003, 12:33 AM
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if your relay had a short in it, it would be similar to taking that thin black wire from the ground and touching it to the positive terminal on the battery...
if the wiring was wrong and there was a short due to wires going to the wrong places... it would be similar. It appears you have a number of things going to your positive terminal via some car audio type connector... I suspect some of those lines are not fused.... like if that grey wire is going to your fuel pump, is it fused?
if the wiring was wrong and there was a short due to wires going to the wrong places... it would be similar. It appears you have a number of things going to your positive terminal via some car audio type connector... I suspect some of those lines are not fused.... like if that grey wire is going to your fuel pump, is it fused?
03-20-2003, 08:04 AM
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Well its either the relay was miswired and sent the power from the power wire to the ground, or the ground shorted out inside the pre-wired loom, or the grey +12v source completed the circuit and sent too much power through the ground, but I have not wired the chassis or the dash harness(which the grey wire was plugged into) and I checked it with a multimeter to confirm this, and they grey wire is still intact, no signs of overload. SO either the relay is miswired and cross completed the 2 circuits or the ground wire shorted out inside the harness. Still waiting for haltech to write back, hitman on the hand has been very helpful.
