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ok so me and a couple friends are doin this install (deck amp and sub) in an 84 acadian well we couldnt find the constant power for the deck so we ran a direct line to the battery, hooked it up and before we got it to the harness it grounded out on somethin, and melted the crap outta the wire started smokin, logan and josh jump out the car leave me there in the back seat, i turn around the car is fillin with smoke so as i am gettin out try to grab the wire so it dont burn his interior, i get out and yell at logan to cut the wires he grabs the cutters and throws them to me like i aint gonna do it U do so i managed to cut the wire off the battery. after the smoke cleared we ran a new one put it to the deck FIRST then the battery, and then the deck wouldnt fit in the dash cus the vents were in the way...... car didnt want to go boom man but we fixed everything got it runnin goin boom boom
this is a copy and paste version of the story i told to a friend. i figure its stupid enuff to warrant being posted in here
later peoples Tha-Game
------------------ if it dont boom...... LEAVE THE ROOM!
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quote:Originally posted by teamROCS010: well it's "done" now. hehe You never connect power without there being a fuse in there man. Oh well, you live and learn, unfortunately sometimes that learning is the hard way.
Couldn't agree more. I had a setup with an external charger (40A) and two batteries. I had it hooked up to an amp and sub for use with the TV/movies in the sittingroom of a studentflat. One of the other students comes running to my room and screams that the setup is smoking.
Luckily he had pulled out the cables allready, cause the crowbar overvoltage protection had malfunctioned. This is a function that shorts the + and - output when the output voltage rises over a set voltage. The fact that I had disabled this function didn't seem to matter. The internal fuse (50A) didn't blow, as the wire I used was only 12Ga.
I had reduced the max.current on the powersupply to 10A, because I was using 12Ga, but I didn't expect this to happen, so I didn't adjust the fuse to 10A too....
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Melted wires? Ha!! I blew up a battery, "bleached" the paint on my hood, burned a hole in my shorts, and found out that I'm immune to battery acid (even hydro-choloric acid, weird, but "It's True, It's True"), and then found out that the car store I was at didn't take AmEx. All that in one day . All because the ground came loose. Never happened again, tell you that much!! Twist those screws until they are molecularly bonded with the chassis and the wire has been atom-smashed into the clamp - IT AIN'T SLIPPIN' is the moto of installs now .
Gosh, to be young again....nah, then I'd have to relive that exp again .
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