Blew a fuse, need help to find it

new 4/08/04

Another good point. I'll have to see if I think its worth it to make the modification. The bulbs I have in there tend to do out too fast any way. I should just convert it all to LED!
Mike
97 ES

Regarding the high and low beams at the same time thought...

The two filaments inside the bulb are CLOSE and heat from one will influence the other. I believe that if you have both filaments fired at the same time you will seriously affect bulb life.

Back in the old days of sealed beam lights, running both at the same time was common and normal for most cars. But with the advent of the multi-filament replaceable bulb that has been done away with.

Try if it works tell us, but I think you'll find that your bulbs go pretty quickly is you use your highs much at all for spotting the bambis there in WV.

Scott Krietemeyer
99 TG
96 MG

Excellent, thanks Paul, I'll get to it after I get back from class. I wish I could work on the mod more, I think I know what I have to do to finish it all up, but I probably won't have the time until this weekend.

Here are the details:
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/migilles/taillights.html after I got it done though, I decided that I wanted to take it a setup further, with the running light under the turn signals, it. weakens the effect of them a bit, you can still see them clearly, but I wanted to make it better. So I'm using the terminals on the multifunction switch that you used for the corner lights, to energize a couple of relays to kill the rear running lights under the signals. But then I found that those corner lights only work with the full headlights, not just parking lights. So I'm going to eventually I think, cut both headlight wires on the multifunction switch, splice them together (kills 2 birds with 1 stone too, this will keep the low beams on when the highs are turned on, something I have been meaning to do for a while) and then where the original headlight signal goes into the multifunction switch, I'm going to attach a wire that is hot whenever any lights are on, I already have such a wire for my fog lights, I setup a relay so they won't come on without the parking lights on first, I'll switch that relay out with a dual contact relay, and use the second set of contacts to run to the multifunction switch, then the corner light pins should work with the parking lights too, which is what I want, since they aren't corner lights, they are to energize relays to make my tail lights work the way I wanted them too. I had no idea it would be so complicated when I got started with this project, but except for blowing that fuse its gone pretty smoothly.

Thanks again,

Mike

97 ES

That would be fuse 15, a 10 amp fuse.

What mod are you doing?

Paul Nimz
'97 TR
'93 EG mtx

I was playing around with my multifunction switch today, have a pretty neat mod coming if I can get it to work. But I touched something together that should not have been and I heard the unmistakable click of a fuse going, and of course that wire no longer gets power the way it should, all car functions seem to work just fine, but the extra terminals on the multifunction switch that used to feed the corner lights no longer work. So, the wire is the one that feeds hot in run power to the multifunction switch, its pin 1, on the C269 connector I believe, anyone know which fuse feeds this power? I can't find anything else that doesn't work, so I don't know what fuse to look for, I have a tester, but on the off chance someone knows what it is, that would keep me from going through them one by one,

Thanks,

Mike

97 ES

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