Blowing fuse

[Theride 10+ year member]

My inline fuse keep blowing.

But what I observe is that when i have only the right side speakers hooked up its fine but when i hook up the left side speakers (comp) thats when the fuse go out. what gives?

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[PaulD 10+ year member]

the left side comp's speaker wire is shorted to the chassis somewhere

 

[Theride 10+ year member]

the left side comp's speaker wire is shorted to the chassis somewhere

it THINK i fixed the problem. It seems i had neg to pos and pos to neg connected.

 

[SPLaudio 5,000+ posts]

reversed polarity on speaker wire wont blow a fuse..

 

[cichlid_baby 10+ year member]

reversed polarity on speaker wire wont blow a fuse..

Exactly what he ^^^ said...

It's more than likely that one of the speaker wires got frayed and was shorting out on the chassis... by moving the speaker wires around when you reversed polarity.. you might have just moved the wires enough to prevent the wires from making any further contact with the chassis.. thus eliminating the short..

I'd still check the wires again for signs of wear or else you'll have an ongoing problem.

 

[jdawg 5,000+ posts]

fuse too small, what size fuse and what amp?

 

[Theride 10+ year member]

I did a few things. I cleaned up the wires/wiring properly. The amp I believe pushs 1000 watts so i got a 100A fuse instead of the 60 that was there.

I am still watching it to see if it will blow another fuse. so far so good however.

 

[its_ray_ray 10+ year member]

ummmm...... This poast ^^^^^