Burnt Ground wire!

  • Arzie
    East Bethel, Minnesota
    Posts: 426
    May 21, 2007 at 12:36 am #1254856

    Last summer something happened on my boat and all the ground wires melted! Anyone know what would cause this? No fuses were burnt out either!

    Eric Rehberg
    Eau Claire, WI
    Posts: 3071
    May 21, 2007 at 12:57 am #573064

    Were on the boat did they melt? are you talking for the trailer lights or wires inside the boat????

    Arzie
    East Bethel, Minnesota
    Posts: 426
    May 21, 2007 at 1:10 am #573068

    Inside the boat. The boat is a Lund Pro-V with a tiller.

    Eric Rehberg
    Eau Claire, WI
    Posts: 3071
    May 21, 2007 at 1:21 am #573073

    Do you know what wire it is? or more specifically where it is in the boat?????

    gjk1970
    Annandale Mn.
    Posts: 1260
    May 21, 2007 at 1:36 am #573081

    Check both ends of the ground wire and see if it is in contact with a positive wire if nothing there then follow the ground wire cause sounds like somewhere it may have been kinked up against a positive and shorted it out causing the melt down of the ground. Good place to start..

    And make sure you are not running the ground end to a positive feed…

    Steve Root
    South St. Paul, MN
    Posts: 5623
    May 21, 2007 at 1:46 am #573086

    Something is really wrong here. Melted wires are a great way to start a fire. The whole reason for having fuses is to prevent that from happening. So you actually have two problems to figure out. 1) Where is the short circuit that melted the wires and 2) Why the fuses didn’t blow.

    Rootski

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