Help - Console Hot Circuit Blowing Out
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Cruising
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Help - Console Hot Circuit Blowing Out
I am blowing out the hot printed circuit trace to my temp gauge. My temp gauge was not working and I pulled cluster to fix. The hot trace to the temp gauge was broken, so I got new gauge and new circuit board and it blew in the same place. Also, my oil gauge is now reading past 80. Any ideas would be appreciated. This is getting expensive. Thanks.
Racer
Joined: Jan 2014
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From: Jefferson City Missouri
If you are burning up the traces on the printed circuit board, you have a very serious short going on there. I won't be able to help much on exactly what is going on since I don't have direct experience with the gauge cluster, but I do know in order to burn a trace off a board there is an excessive amount of current. Usually this is where 12v is shorted directly to ground. It also sounds like you have something in the oil gauge shorted out if it's reading that high. If you continue to peg the gauge, it won't be accurate or work at all if it hasn't been damaged already.
