Been a very hectic weekend that almost re-wired my biological clock. I didn’t have enough sleep and kept thinking of the error that caused a 15Amp fuse in my car to trip. After 3days of tracing and disassembling the wires in my fuse box, I finally managed to find the fault.

First, it was caused by a shorted wire that has hidden in the boot compartment. The wires had been eaten by wear and tear over the years, its a 1981 Honda Civic. The load wire that connected my tail light  along with the neutral and other wires had melted together, most probably caused by a minor short circuit and spreaded to a major short circuit.

I had thought that was the end, so I had inserted another fuse in the fuse box but it blew on me again. Then I traced the wiring to the front of the car, where the headlight was. Since it is an old car, I had to scrub off all the grime and dirt on every wire to make sure that the same error didn’t apply to the wires.

Sure enough, the front headlight wires were shorted. Even though the cut was small and couldn’t be seen unless all the grime had been taken off, the impact it made on my fuse box could very well cause another major short circuit.

To solve the minor bare cut on the wire, I had to make sure that the bared wire still had a strong continuity to itself before I taped it off with an electrical insulating tape that could withstand high temperatures.

Once that was done, I once again inserted the fuse and voila! My 3 days headache was solved. Too bad for me, the faulty circuit is not claimable by insurance company else I would have been enjoying my weekends. Perhaps I should re-read the auto insurance quote brochures which I had taken a while back from my visit to the insurance company.

Unfortunately now my Air Con relay is fried. Not sure what happened since I had changed the relay to a newer one so now I need to head back to the drawing board.