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Old 05-19-2004, 03:17 PM
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Blown Fuse Problem, Help

Last year an accident happened in my camaro. I have 2 neon lights underneath the seats, controlled by a switch to turn em on and off.

Somehow I was driving and the wires touched one another (ground + positive) I believe and started to smoke and shut off.

I've been recently trying to play with it, and I cant get them to work anymore. I bought a new switch but that isnt the problem. I never had a fuse in between anything either, so the culprit is lying with the fuse panel.


Basically for power, I conencted the positive wire to my fuse panel (battery). I think a fuse is blown between that fuse panel and the batter itself under the hood, but I dunno where to find it !

If I try hooking up my neon lights right to my fuse panel battery, they DONT come on, so I know its something to do with that.

Any advice!?!?
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Old 05-19-2004, 03:41 PM
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first off did you verify the lights still work? do you have a multimeter to test for power at the fuse panel? if the supply fuse was blown I think you would have alot of things not working... check the fuses under the hood and in the car.
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Old 05-19-2004, 04:08 PM
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The lights still work ya. I tested them by hooking the 2 wires up straight up to the battery. I don't have a multi meter, but my dad might.

I have already checked all the fuses under the car and on the fuse panel, everything seems to be ok. Weird...
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Old 05-19-2004, 04:11 PM
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if there was no fuse in place, or a very high aperage fuse you may have melted some wires. follow the path, a multimeter would really help.
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Originally posted by Dave Feerst
if there was no fuse in place, or a very high aperage fuse you may have melted some wires. follow the path, a multimeter would really help.
Yea I am gonna go along with this one. If there was any smoke at all then there was way too many amps going through the tiny wires that are running the neons. You should put a small amperage inline fuse in there next time so it blows the fuse first....
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Old 05-19-2004, 07:00 PM
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So which wires could it have melted? The neon ones? Power lines? Negative wires?
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