alright the other night i was trying to put in strobs in my 94 del sol, well i ran into a problem is said connect to a ground cord, so i stripped some of the ground cord that runs from the antena to the back of my cd player...i think i might of cut too deep bc now when i turn on my car the cigg/cd fuse blows...i tried taping it with electical tape...i checked the wires behind the cd player to make sure they were ok....anything else i need to check? i was thinking just run a new ground cord....please let me know no music in my car sucks ***

 

the wire from the stereo to the power antenna is a (+) wire when the radio is on. that's your problem.... (not to mention the fact that u wasted $$ on strobes for ur car)

if you're trying to ground your stobes to the antenna itself, you need to buy an electronics for idiots book...

 

ok so i have been told i wasted $ on them....what do u mean about the (+) **** with the radio

 

its positive

 

i get the positive part, but why does it make it short out everytime just bc its positive? im tryin to learn as i go here

 

oh lord.....

 

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i dont think you get the postive part,..because if you did then you would know that a ground is (-) which represents negative ,...which means you are grounding the strobes to a postive lead instead of a negative lead

easiest way to ground your strobes is to find a ground point,..meaning find a bolt that bolts to a piece of metal and use that as your ground

 

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this is a joke right?

 

arg, yeah, ground to bare metal.. TIGHTLY just like a battery connection.

And you probably did waste money on strobes... ive got underlighting for my stock civic ex... got it as a present, all I worry about is breaking them, I dont even use them anymore, they serve no purpose other than being expensive and vulnerable. I so wish I traded it in and got the amp... didnt know id have enough money for the wires then... what a mistake... Now ive got to wait even longer to get the amp and my del sol seats...