Need Help Fast!!
Need Help Fast!! Ok so I am racing tomorrow and I just tried to wire up another bottle heater to my existing one.......I am now running a dual bottle set up. Here is the problem. I have a HSW bottle heater, which is one that I have had on the car for quite sometime now....I just bought a Nitrous Outlet heater...just the ELEMENT ONLY, and I was going to splice it inline with what I curently am running. Now the HSW came with the complete wiring kit and everything. So therefore I was just going to splice the one wire with the hot, and the other with the ground.......easy enough. I go to turn my switch on to see if the bottle heaters BOTH work, and the freaking ground wire starts smoking and melting!!!!! WTF is going on here.....HELP.
I do have a smaller gnd wire then the rest.......that will cause that to happen? With the HSW kit it came with e 30amp inline fuse.....that did not blow during this little smoking session.....When I flip the switch it looks almost like the gnd wire may jump a little bit?? Like there may be some voltage going through it or something....I duno. I just thought I could splice them together, just add 2 wires to the circuit, one to the hot and the other to the gnd.....??
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From: Elgin, Il
Absolutely - a smaller wire as more resistance since it can't let the amps flow through it properly. Even though there should be no voltage through a ground, there will certainly be amperage. If there is voltage in the ground then you don't have a good ground source. The BEST ground is directly to the negative battery cable.
