Man, lately it seems like everything that I touch goes wrong.....
FYI, 67 RS with new front light harness, new under dash harness, new diode, etc.
Anyway, the breaker on my relay board keeps popping. I disconnected the RS motors, limit switches, headlights and parking lights to try and track down the issue. Even with everything disconnected (except the relays) when I pull the headlight switch (Ignition off) the breaker pops.
Looking at it further, what I've found is that the relay (#2 maybe) that has the two black wires connected to the "common" terminal seems to allow a bunch of current to flow once it is connected. So my pea-brain says that there is too much flow across that relay from the dark blue wire to ground.
I'm no electrical genius, but I ain't that dumb neither....Anywho, I'm scratching my head trying to figure out what would "slow down" the current flow so that it would stay under 10 amps and not pop the breaker. The flow across the relays is pretty simple??? Relay one is fed from the breaker and when the light blue wire is energized, the relay switches and the orange wire feeds the dark blue wire which feeds relay two (which switches because of the light blue wire being energized) which then finds ground from the black wire on the common terminal.
Blah, blah, blah....any input?
FYI, 67 RS with new front light harness, new under dash harness, new diode, etc.
Anyway, the breaker on my relay board keeps popping. I disconnected the RS motors, limit switches, headlights and parking lights to try and track down the issue. Even with everything disconnected (except the relays) when I pull the headlight switch (Ignition off) the breaker pops.
Looking at it further, what I've found is that the relay (#2 maybe) that has the two black wires connected to the "common" terminal seems to allow a bunch of current to flow once it is connected. So my pea-brain says that there is too much flow across that relay from the dark blue wire to ground.
I'm no electrical genius, but I ain't that dumb neither....Anywho, I'm scratching my head trying to figure out what would "slow down" the current flow so that it would stay under 10 amps and not pop the breaker. The flow across the relays is pretty simple??? Relay one is fed from the breaker and when the light blue wire is energized, the relay switches and the orange wire feeds the dark blue wire which feeds relay two (which switches because of the light blue wire being energized) which then finds ground from the black wire on the common terminal.
Blah, blah, blah....any input?