meter fuse slot reading too high?
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meter fuse slot reading too high?
i put a voltameter in place of the meter fuse and it's reading a high 11 volts, whats this mean? is it a short in the system somewhere?
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maybe it's amps then... i did as said on a faq somewhere. i set the meter on 20 amps and measured and it came up 11 close to 12. and isn't it suppose to be no more than 10?
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plugging a multimeter in place of where the blown fuse was and reading the amps. sorry for the confusing description. i just need help to figure out why it's reading higher than the fuse rated for that slot is
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The 10A METER fuse powers the reverse lights, cruise control, gauges, warning light cluster, clock, and electric fan controller (not the fan itself). The reverse lights (which I presume were not on when testing) draw 4-5A, but the rest draw tiny amounts or power so you'd be lucky to measure a couple of amps normally. Has anything else been connected to that fuse or to the power wire of any of those things?
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Probably not a good idea, but one of my fuses kept blowing (windshield wipers) on my Mercury so I just put a 20A in there as opposed to a 5A or 10A, forget which, that was stock. Works better, doesn't blow quite as much. I 'spose I should find the problem, but that's too much work
Or you could put a loaded .22 bullet in there and let it go off into your nuts... Oh Darwin Awards...
Or you could put a loaded .22 bullet in there and let it go off into your nuts... Oh Darwin Awards...
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Originally posted by *a*jones*
where is the electric fan controller at?
where is the electric fan controller at?
You have a short somewhere.
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If you have a good battery and a direct short to ground, you should read A LOT more than 11 Amps. What kind of meter are you using? Most meters I know of measure in the milli-amp range, with maybe a seperate meter lead connection for higher currents (say, up to 10 amps). Make sure you're not reading milliamps (mA) on the meter. If you are in fact pushing 11 amps across that 10 amp fuse, you've either installed more components on the circuit than it was designed to handle, or you have a component going bad and drawing more amps than it should
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i know last time i tried it lasted for a while i probably drove 5 miles or so and it just blew. i was cruising when it blew, i thought it might have been my AF gauge shorting it out somehow so i disconnected it and it still went. all these problems started after i regrounded my ECU. i thought maybe i did that wrong, but upon undoing my wiring it was still blowing.
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how soon after you put in the A/F gage did it start? If you used a wire you THOUGHT was a ground for the gage and the wire receives power sometime later while you're driving along, that could cause your problems...If you got the right ground pins on the ECU, I don't see how that would cause it...
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i'm pretty sure it's not the AF gauge because it was there quite some time before this problem started. i just disconnected it as a 'what if' thing. however when i regrounded the ecu, it started right after that.
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