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KC Hilites + Daystar Switches + Painless Cirkit Boss = BLOWN FUSE?

Old Nov 9, 2009 | 03:17 PM
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Default KC Hilites + Daystar Switches + Painless Cirkit Boss = BLOWN FUSE?

I know everything is hooked up correctly EXCEPT, what used to be the WHITE wire on the KC Hilight kit that ran from the battery, in-line 3A fuse, to the switch.

Now, I have a problem I can't figure out. I just installed the painless cirkit boss under the hood. I know it is installed correctly. I also had an existing pair of KC hilites on the rig. I know these WERE installed correctly.

Now, how I have it wired is the LOAD (green) from the KC relay goes to the switch, all switch grounds are bussed in line, and the SUPPLY line (which on the KC kit used to be white with a 3A in-line fuse) is hooked into the painless fuse block to make the fuse block act as my old inline.

HERE IS THE PROBLEM. My SUPPLY lines (white) which come off the Cirkit Boss keep blowing it's 20A fuse. I had originally had these bussed togehter, switch to switch, but since that acted as a parrallel circuit, all my switch lights came on when I activated one. So I changed that to one line coming from the cirkit boss with 4 individual lines running from it...still blowing the fuse.

At this point, the only other option I know of that MAY work is to go back to running (4) seperate lines from the battery, put a 3A in-line fuse on all of them, and attached them to the SUPPLY terminal on the back of the switch.

Is there another/better/correct way of doing this? I bought the painless kit to get wires OFF my battery.
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Old Nov 11, 2009 | 11:25 AM
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PROBLEM SOLVED!!! AND I'M A DUMBASS!

Problem was in the swithcing. I was following schematics for a KC rocker switch, not the daystar switch and had the ground on the wrong pole...causing the overload and blown fuse.

JEEP IS FIXED.
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