soi bought a pair of standley side markers and wired it straight from my blinkers.n now my fuse keep blowing for my hazard/blinkers.but before i got the side markers i had the side bumper light on my prelude wired to the blinkers and it worked perfectly fine now i disconected the side bumper light and wired it to the side markers n now the fuse keep blowing,,any one know why and how i can fix that..

 

Too much amperage you could install a bigger fuse, but the wires might burn up.

 

ic. is it better to run the side marrkers with an in-line fuse?

 

crap hopyfully this doesn't happen to me when i hook mine up

 

i reallllllly doubt your drawing enough current to blow the fuse by just adding those lights. what wattage are they? check your wiring diagram and see what else is on that circut. Calculate them all together and see if it makes SENSE that it would draw more that 15 amps. or whatever that circut is...I imagine its more possible that there was a mistake made in the wiring. But thats easy for me to say. i dunno man.

 

you never just add a bigger fuse. the circuts are fused at a certain amperage for a reason. if you go messing with that without beefing up your wiring, you'll burn up you wires for sure, and then be up **** creek.

 

The fuse is blowing, so it is a current problem. I did state you could put in a bigger fuse, and it might burn up your wires. I'm not stating if its a 5/10 amp add a 40amp fuse...The cause of high amperage is low resistance. (or mechanical draw...and i highly doubt its mechanical lol) You're adding a branch to a circuit, resistance is automatically going to go down. so add some resistance. i know it might sound retarded but i've seen people add a very small resistor to a situation sorta like this (different circuit) to compensate for adding another branch. Minimize your amperage. Check out if you'll be happy with a dimmer type of light.

Sorry if i couldn't help much

 

You probably have a short, e.g., positive wire touching ground (e.g. other ground wire or chassis ground).

Make sure the wiring and connections for the side markers are properly insulated and hooked up right (e.g. positive and negative not switched, etc.).

 

""You're adding a branch to a circuit, resistance is automatically going to go down""

im not trying to be a dick. But thats NOT how electricity works... By adding the new lights, that causes MORE resistance on the circut, thus drawing more amperage. So if you add more resistors you will simply draw more current. Not the other way around.

 

+1

 

I hope you aren't serious...please don't be serious. i would weep for you. if you make a circuit a parallel circuit and continue to add "legs" you decrease the resistance...and increase its current. And the only time current goes up with resistance is if its mechanical resistance...But yeah what would i know, my first ASE was in electrical...

 

so far i've done six cars and never had this problem im positive that its the wires are crossed -to+ instead of - to - and + to +. There should be no need to put a bigger fuse in cause remember these cars have them in japan

 

**** im sorry dude. Youre right i misunderstood. :s

 

if it was in series, adding more resistance would make it go up. But where its parallel you are entirely and completely correct.
Foot, in, mouth. Im sorry.