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[shadow 10+ year member]

It looks like your grounded it to plastic...that is a horrible ground.
You need bare metal that connects to the frame, not plastic.

^^^^^^^^^ This , Good Gods...man...

Well u have good grounds to be ( pissed off )....

 

[LosIsATool 5,000+ posts]

If that fuse didnt blow you would of been out of a mustang. You got lucky

 

[pro-rabbit 5,000+ posts]

oh look what i found.....

With out knowing the current he is passing through them this test really doesn't help much.

Looks like another test I need to put on my list though...

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

I've seen worse. A lot of times in my experience a poor electrical has a lot to do with that as well as summer heat. You're drawing massive amounts of current under a hot engine bay in the middle of summer...sometimes to be honest this just happens.

 

[will3 10+ year member]

Mustang is a unibody ( not a full frame) so you will want to ground to the main body of the car like the floor etc. not on inner fenders, or the rear deck, or anything that is spot welded to the car, also since your are at it now would be a good time to do the big 3 if it is not already done, and by the looks of it, it is not.

 

[jsluss17 10+ year member]

If that fuse didnt blow you would of been out of a mustang. You got lucky

so the fuse did blow then? i couldn't tell if it did because the amp was still turning on it just was just putting out like barely any power. if the fuse is what was the problem then i'd be pretty happy

I've seen worse. A lot of times in my experience a poor electrical has a lot to do with that as well as summer heat. You're drawing massive amounts of current under a hot engine bay in the middle of summer...sometimes to be honest this just happens.

yeah plus i live in arizona where it reaches 110+ daily

Mustang is a unibody ( not a full frame) so you will want to ground to the main body of the car like the floor etc. not on inner fenders, or the rear deck, or anything that is spot welded to the car, also since your are at it now would be a good time to do the big 3 if it is not already done, and by the looks of it, it is not.

so would the area beneath the spare tire be a good ground? i can't seem to find any other place

 

[goingdef 10+ year member]

so the fuse did blow then? i couldn't tell if it did because the amp was still turning on it just was just putting out like barely any power. if the fuse is what was the problem then i'd be pretty happy
yeah plus i live in arizona where it reaches 110+ daily

so would the area beneath the spare tire be a good ground? i can't seem to find any other place

well by the looks of it the fuse was either too small or there was a bad connection there at the fuse block, just cut off the bad ends and buy a new fuse block and then fuse it according to an amperage chart fuse for the maximum allotted amount for your gauge wire and the amount of feet you run!

 

[Louisiana_CRX 5,000+ posts]

one

 

[JoeK 10+ year member]

Doesnt the AQ1200D have built in fuses?

 

[jsluss17 10+ year member]

Doesnt the AQ1200D have built in fuses?

yessir

 

[supermaxx123 10+ year member]

Doesnt the AQ1200D have built in fuses?

your point is?

 

[JoeK 10+ year member]

your point is?

Wouldnt in line fusing be redundant and have no point? Mainly because 50amps is way too small for a 1200D

 

[audiobaun 5,000+ posts]

I run to a Fused Distribution block regardless, and fuse all my Beauts..better safe than sorry, amps can get expensive,especially when you start running Multiple amps.Why not spend the Extra $30-40 bucks for your Gems?

 

[goingdef 10+ year member]

Wouldnt in line fusing be redundant and have no point? Mainly because 50amps is way too small for a 1200D

you are fusing to prevent the car from catching fire in the event your power wire shorts out to your frame, that is why you fuse to the maximum allotted amount of amps for the wire and fuse for that even if it's 0g wire 8' long you would fuse that for several hundred amps even if you only have a 500w amp on the other end.

 

[supermaxx123 10+ year member]

The fuse is protecting more than your amp. Even a small 16 gauge unfused wire running direct could easily start a fire if shorted