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Posted: June 15, 2003 at 8:01 PM / IP Logged

Where did you tie into your constant 12V+ source?

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Posted: June 15, 2003 at 8:07 PM / IP Logged

Ok I will try to look at my siren and my hood pin to see if I see any imperfections in the wire to those areas. I dint think it is the main power because I have had this unit out to change the fuce MANY times and all is good.Thank you for your help, I will look at it tomorrow.

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Posted: June 15, 2003 at 8:10 PM / IP Logged

From the consistant 12v+ behind the fuse panell. Should I go to the battery???

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Ok I vave been through this alarm from top to bottom and I found NO cut wires or kinked wires or any problems. I fixed this alarm last week and it was all good untill I blew the fuse again. I went for a 1 mile drive and it blow again.But it worked fine all week. Is thier any other things I can look at or do????

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Posted: June 20, 2003 at 5:39 PM / IP Logged

This may be a long shot, but I've seen it before. Check to see if you have a small bead of solder or even a small strand of wire floating around inside the control module.

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Posted: June 20, 2003 at 5:49 PM / IP Logged

Ok I will look for that and see and shake it a little to see if anything sounds loose. Still fighting this thing!!

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Posted: June 22, 2003 at 8:43 AM / IP Logged

Ok I took the brain out and looked at it good and did not see anything out of the ordinary. I out a new fuse in yesterday and all was fine till just now. Keep blowing fuse help! - Page 2 -- posted image.

Yes it blew again. In the istallation gide it says you cant use a power trunk opener. Is this the reason it keeps blowing even though I dont use it all the time??? It peaks at 12+ when it is in use and I am blowing a 30 amp fuse. 1991 trans am gta. HELP!!!!

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Posted: June 22, 2003 at 9:26 AM / IP Logged

You can try connecting your main power leads directly to the battery, but without being there to look at the installation myself and only being able to go by the information you've provided, I'd suggest having a second pair of experienced eyes have a peek at it. Chances are it's something simple causing your problem, but even if it's not, an experienced installer should be able to quickly locate and fix the problem.

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Posted: June 22, 2003 at 10:03 AM / IP Logged

I have had an experienced installer look at it and he said it was all good, and my friend whome is a lisences electrition look at the diagrams and tracked the readings through each function of the alarm and all the readings were well below spec. The fuse allways blows when the car is motion that is why it is so hard to track. Could it be the main brain itself causing it to short out?????

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Posted: June 22, 2003 at 10:38 AM / IP Logged

You've obviously have something shorting out in the vehicle that is causing the fuse to blow while the vehicle is in motion. You will have to literally check every inch of the power lead the fuse is protecting to locate your problem. If every inch of it is okay, then you'll have to check each item you have connected to that power lead. You can disconnect one item at a time, drive it and if it doesn't blow the fuse, you found the culprit, but if you can not locate it, I'd still suggest bringing it to a more experienced installer and not an electrician.

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