Im such a dumba$$

[Wkbdkid 10+ year member]

i was bored today so i thought i would go out and clean up all my wires and make it look good(jus installed comps). So im winding up the wires and everything is going fine. Then i start on the power wire for my comp amp and i drop on accident, and knowing my luck the terminal lands on a fuHas anybody else made any dumb things like this before?

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[psych0ticnemes1 5,000+ posts]

(thats why you take the fuse out when you move things)

 

[cyantist 10+ year member]

(thats why you take the fuse out when you move things)

Learn it, live it.. Bet you won't forget next time.. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[j3bus2k3 5,000+ posts]

I was free-airing some type-r's after I reglued the surround on. I wired one up, it worked fine, then wired the other up and it didnt work. So I said screw it, its old, i'll just get a new one. So i started striping a lamp cord to give it its send-off to woofer heaven when my friend who knows nothing of car stereo wiring says "Hey isnt it positive to positive, not positive to negative?" Confused, I looked over the wiring and sure as shit, I had it wired wrong. I about blew up a perfectly good woofer, lol.

 

[Wkbdkid 10+ year member]

nope

 

[supraman1379 10+ year member]

I dropped a power wire on my old profile amp and friend it lol.

You live and learn.

I keep trying to tell Blaze06us that he needs to unhook the main fuse before he puts his new amp in. He says you dont have to do it. So ill let him learn the hard way.

He said he has unhooked his current amp several times with the fuse still hooked up and never had anything happen. But I think something will happen eventually

 

[bamaboy 5,000+ posts]

I was free-airing some type-r's after I reglued the surround on. I wired one up, it worked fine, then wired the other up and it didnt work. So I said screw it, its old, i'll just get a new one. So i started striping a lamp cord to give it its send-off to woofer heaven when my friend who knows nothing of car stereo wiring says "Hey isnt it positive to positive, not positive to negative?" Confused, I looked over the wiring and sure as shit, I had it wired wrong. I about blew up a perfectly good woofer, lol.

it shoulda worked if you had it wired backwards //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[cyantist 10+ year member]

it shoulda worked if you had it wired backwards //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

I was just going to say that.. Hooking it up backwards wouldn't make it appear dead at all..

 

[MBrock4u 10+ year member]

Yes, but it wasn't that big of a deal. i did freak out when we were wireing my sub amp and the pos wire hit the amp and ZAPP!! Blew a fuse but we had another one handy. More a scare than anything.

 

[Fast1one 10+ year member]

(thats why you take the fuse out when you move things)

Better yet, I disconect the battery negative, take out the fuse, and tape the end up //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif I like to be safe //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[954runner 10+ year member]

I was free-airing some type-r's after I reglued the surround on. I wired one up, it worked fine, then wired the other up and it didnt work. So I said screw it, its old, i'll just get a new one. So i started striping a lamp cord to give it its send-off to woofer heaven when my friend who knows nothing of car stereo wiring says "Hey isnt it positive to positive, not positive to negative?" Confused, I looked over the wiring and sure as shit, I had it wired wrong. I about blew up a perfectly good woofer, lol.

my friend did practically the same thing last night.

in the same time it took me to wire up his two amps and cut the wires to the right length, he had barely rewired the tweeters up front and attached them to the crossover.

but anyways, we turn it on and the mids/sub are playing fine, but nothing out of the tweeters. i check his wiring to the tweets, and he had taped the positive AND negative wires together, not seperately, so they were all touching and sh1t. glad we found that or i'm sure they would have crapped out shortly after. needless to say, i was the one who went back and fixed them.

 

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

i didn't read it yet, but you will hear no argument from me.

Love, Preston.

 

[HotCarl 10+ year member]

one time i wasn cutting wires above my amp, and little wire strands fell down across the + and -.

it was sweet.

 

[Wkbdkid 10+ year member]

when it dropped it was like a **** fireworks show.lol

 

[CBFryman2 5,000+ posts]

You used a screwdriver to move a 12v cable?

Sissy.