> to the deck immediately turned a nice cherry red causing the plastic
> insulation to just drop off the wire.  I got a nice burn when yanking
> out the wiring.  Now, I always use fuses.

Reminds me of the time I was testing my tank circuit for the in car mp3
player. I hooked the positive side to the 10 guage (yep the big fat
stuff), and the negative to the ground point using those little
connectors available at radioshack, the ones with the croc clips on both
ends (yep the little skinny ones). It seemed to work with no load, so I
figured it was time to hook the inverter to the circuit (which I did). I
had the girlfriend observe the experiment in the trunk as I turned the
key in the front.

After hastily shutting everything off from the cries of alarm issuing
from the now alarmed observer I return to the scene of the crime to find
the skinny connector vanished, completely, only the clips remained.
There was an impressive cloud of evil smelling gray smoke dissipating in
the evening air and a seriously concerned looking girlfriend asking me
if it was going to "catch fire".

I also had no fuse which I rectified before the final install, and again
the mp3 player outlived the car.


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Anthony Toft <toftat@cowshed.8m.com>

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