Re: Hot wires
Kay, without seeing your set up it will be a little harder to troubleshoot but let's give it a try. First off, take Bulldogs advice and check all your connections, the hot to the battery and all grounds. Make sure they are clean and tight. While you are at it, make sure everything is wired correctly with hot feeds to positive and grounds to negative. Now make sure that the feed wires (hot) to all your accessories are the correct size. Do you have a breaker panel or a fuse panel? If not, how are you getting power to everything? Do all the hot leads go back to the battery positive or are they spliced to one wire that goes to the battery positive? Are all the grounds tied to one wire then grounded or are all grounds separate? Do you have lighted switches? Some of these switches use a common ground and/or hot for the switch light, be sure to check these connections too.
If you don't have a breaker/fuse panel installed then I would recommend you look at putting one in. It will help protect your equipment from shorts and will make solving problems like this alot easier. Good luck checking your shorts.
