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I keep blowing my gauge light fuse!!!! argggg

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Old Jun 3, 2004 | 09:45 PM
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ok I've hooked up two gauges to my turn signal light, it's a 10 amp and it's blown twice with in seconds, so I put a 20 amp in and it blew in a few more seconds. I'm alreay using my cigarette lighter, so that's out of the question. what should I do?
Old Jun 3, 2004 | 09:56 PM
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Run an inline fuse to the gauge itself. Connect it to one of the extra non fused connectors in the fuse box. I'd probably connect it straight to a 12v source and check how many amps it's drawing to determine what fuse size to go with.
Old Jun 3, 2004 | 09:58 PM
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I wouldn't really trust little 18ga wires for something that is drawing 10 amps (or whatever). Just run a clean fresh source from your battery, clean ground source to the vehicle chassis. Sometimes the clean way is the way you need to be going with.
Old Jun 3, 2004 | 09:59 PM
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I just ran mine to the radio acc and ground.
Old Jun 3, 2004 | 11:15 PM
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Sounds like you may have grounded out your power wire or something like that. check to see if it's chaffed on metal somewhere or just do the new clean wire thingy.
Old Jun 3, 2004 | 11:21 PM
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I would put the guages and stuff that did not come on the car on a relay w/larger ga. wire and fues
Old Jun 3, 2004 | 11:25 PM
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There are many wiring options you can do, wire up a new fuse box if that's what you really want. I'm sure the problem at hand is a fualty ground or stripped wire. Get to chasing.
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