so my ground came out on my amp so i had to fix some wires...now, everytime I try to put in a new 7.5amp radio fuse...it sparks and blows right when i put it in. Anyone know what could be causing this? Ive already blown like 3 fuses All my grounds seem good, is it bad if i put, say a 15 amp fuse in the 7.5amp radio spot?

 

i dont think it would do any harm to put a 15 in a 7.5... but wouldnt that maybe blow your amp?

 

it wont do any harm

make sure no wires are touching each other even a little

high fuse will not blow your amp, i would try a 10 first, is it the small fuses or a big fuse?

 

yea...i checked the trunk and the dvd player again and nothing seems to be touching...imma rip out the headunits again tomororw cause im too damn tired tonight to do it. Joe, its the small square blade fuses.

 

do you have a cap running to your amp? that stores power in it, and would cause you to blow fuses as you tried to put them in.....happened to me acouple times before figuring it out

 

i had the same issues years ago, never really resolved the problem. it went away by itself after blowing 10 fuses. It def. had something to do with either a bad ground, or the cigarette lighter, i think i plugged a 1,000,000 candle watt light into the cig lighter and got a ton of problems from that. i cant even remember, but i remember not only would the radio not work but my rear tail lights went out.

 

yea I do have a cap, but ive never had any probs with it, im bout to take the headunits out again and check my grounds...so how would you guy suggest I make the fuses stop blowing?

 

did you ever fix this man?

 

Make sure you havent accidentally switched your power and ground wires anywhere to thatll blow ur fuse in seconds. other advice never change the size of a fuse specially in ur cars electrical system the reason they put a .5 is because th components after the fuse cant take much more than 7.5 amps by puttin a 10 amp fuse you may destroy everything that the 7.5 fuse is protecting.

 

lol this thread is like 2 years old, course I fixed the prob already

 

lol

 

i was reading it like it was recent for sec

 

what was it.. the remote wire ground out huh?