Found the little booger!

[90Xjay]

Over a month ago, I posted about an electrical problem with the twin 55 watt lights mounted on my safari rack.
I kept blowing the 15 amp fuse out from the relay to the constant battery power supply.
I tried everything, even went to the battery with a 10 guage wire straight through the firewall to the relay. Which is really how it is supposed to be anyway.
Before I was taking my constant 12 vlts from the fuse panel.
After tracing and checking everything I could under the dash. I cut the wire spicing in both of the lights and just wired one light at a time and .....BINGO!
I had ran the wires to the pass side light inside of some plastic tubing and wiretied it to the basket frame. Somehow a solder joint rubbed through the insulation on the ground wire just enough to make a dead short.:redface:
God it is good to find that gremlin

 

[mingez]

That's gotta make you happy. Such a small thing, such a big problem. I've never found a needle in a haystack. Glad you found yours!

 

[90Xjay]

Yeah it feels good to get that sorted out.
I was getting ready to rewire that light set and was thinking of using small butt connectors and covering them with shrink tubing to make them weather proof.
However, comma, I found these neat little butt connectors that have shrink material for insulation and once you make the connection, you just hit it with a heat gun and it seals up!
Ahh the wonders of modern science