Fuse blowing issue.

mrhalfwittmrhalfwitt Band Wagon
in Electronics, Fueling & Air Conditioning
The horn and the stop lights are on the same fuse, when I try to toot my horn the fuse blows. Has this happened to any one else? Where do I start?

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  • MadwickMadwick New Wagonist
    just so you know there are 2 horns on the wagon. make sure both are connected and that both are grounded correctly. thats the first place to check. then follow them to the relay or fuse to see if there is any disturbance with the wire insulation orloom cause the trip. hope this helps.
  • mrhalfwittmrhalfwitt Band Wagon
    Madwick wrote:
    just so you know there are 2 horns on the wagon. make sure both are connected and that both are grounded correctly. thats the first place to check. then follow them to the relay or fuse to see if there is any disturbance with the wire insulation orloom cause the trip. hope this helps.
    I looked at both of the horns, they are connected. I followed the wire until they went to the harness. I still need to find the horn relay and check the terminals with a meter for a short.
  • adrenalinesaintadrenalinesaint Wagonist
    you checked the grounds for both horns right?
  • mrhalfwittmrhalfwitt Band Wagon
    adrenalinesaint wrote:
    you checked the grounds for both horns right?
    The grounds are good. The horn never worked for the last guy that had the car. I have done alot of things electrically to the car but I dont think I did anything has anything to do with the horn. There was a bunch of junk I took out from under the dash like alarm system, aftermarket fog light wiring, but it all came out without any mysterious wires hanging loose. There is an after market steering wheel that I put on but I made sure it was done rite. It just blows my mind why honda would put the two on the same circuit.
  • mrhalfwittmrhalfwitt Band Wagon
    Just occurred to me, the alarm system must have been tied into the horn some how. I better look under the dash again.
  • leWolfleWolf Senior Wagonist
    mrhalfwitt wrote:
    Just occurred to me, the alarm system must have been tied into the horn some how. I better look under the dash again.

    Yeah, thats what i was just thinking.
  • MadwickMadwick New Wagonist
    only flaw with that is the alarm sends a negaitve signal, constantly. the siren then allows the the pitch/sound to change. if it were hooked up to your horn it would be as if you held your hand down on the horn button whenever it went off, like one long horn note.

    of course unless they found a negative relay that sent a positive, pulsating signal to the horn to sound like the factory alarms...???
  • mrhalfwittmrhalfwitt Band Wagon
    Turns out both of the horns are bad. I could not find any thing wrong with the wiring at all. The last thing I did was unplug the horns and hit the horn button and the fuse didn't blow. So I unscrewed the horns and tested them out directly on the battery. one did nothing, the other made a crackling noise the the wires were sparking on the battery terminals. So that one horn must have been blowing the fuse. And for the record there is no horn relay.
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