I posted this in the A/V forum, too, but maybe you guys can help me too, yeah?


The other day I was wiring up a new cd player to my 93 Prelude, and everything worked out fine at first. I got it hooked up and working, but a speaker connection came undone, and I had to take it back out and redo that connection, and when I put it back in, it no longer worked. No power, no nothing. All the connections are fine, that's not the issue. I thought I may have blown a fuse, so I checked (although I am not sure exactly which fuse to check, so I checked them all...ACC maybe?). No fuse was blown, BUT my in-dash clock no longer works, either. The previous owner had an alarm system hooked up to the car and most of it is still in the car but nonfunctional, so could there be an inline fuse in that that I might have blown? Or Just an inline somewhere in general? Or is it not a fuse at all? It's possible I touched a negative speaker wire to a grounded piece of metal during the reinstall, and I know you're not supposed to do that. I dunno, any help would be appreciated. Thank you

 

sounds to me like you blew the fuse... did you check the 10A fuse in the engine compartment? Or are you just looking at the fuses under the dash?? I bet it's the fuse in the engine compartment. Both the clock and the radio and ECU are on the same fuse.

 

Why thank you, thank you very much. I hate to admit my ignorance in anything, but I HATE car electrical sysytems and haven't bothered to learn much about them. So I have to ask another question...Where are the fuses in the engine compartment?!?!? I didn't even know they existed...near the relay box? That's my guess, but I don't know. Thank again for your help, Sephro

 

Fuse box in the engine bay is the corner behind the front passenger side wheel. I beleive Sephro is right. Check your constant 12V line, which could also be called the clock or ecu fuse. I had that blow on my girlfriend's accord when I installed a 52Wx4 and cranked it up. Same result, clock didn't have memory, electric seat belts didn't work. Replaced that fuse and everything was good again. (on her car it was only a 7.5 amp fuse, and it was in the engine bay, not in the inside fuse box)

 

Well, thanks guys, everything's working again with the simple changing of a fuse. I didn't even know I had another fuse cluster, but I do!!! Simply amazing. Anyways, I am know able to drive with both music AND time, and life is good. Thanks again

 

I know you already got this solved, but most likely when your connections came undone, somewhere in all that fiddling you shorted out the power. You saw a big spark didn't you?