radio fuse keeps popping
We own a 2018 Holiday rambler 35K on a Ford f53 chassis. The fuse to the radio/back up camera screen keeps blowing and I'm wondering if anyone else has had this problem and what fixed it. Its the #17...
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Sounds like a loose ground wire.
Loose or intermittent ground doesn’t blow fuses. That’s a dead short.
live short on the + side (to ground) blows fuses.
To the OP, fortunately this is pretty easy to diagnose and trace. You know where the offending wire starts and where it ends.
Almost certainly that aftermarket power lead is shorting out. Only difficulty may be running a new wire.
if you’re lucky it’s not affixed hard anywhere and maybe you can just use the old wire to pull a new one thru.
since you removed the head unit and it still blows, you astutely eliminated some sort of internal short in the radio itself.
Good to know. I never knew the short couldn't be on the ground side. Should help me tremendously in root causing future issues. Thanks!
