So I'm not gonna pretend to be an expert on electrical, I'm not. Years ago I hooked up a switch panel to a few accessories (lights, bilge, etc) but that's about the extent of what i've done myself.
I wanted to add a cigarette lighter style power outlet to charge my phone for gps purposes. The attached diagram shows how i tried to hook it up (i didn't include the other accessory connections as those still work fine). Obviously i did something very wrong, both negative and positive wires going to the outlet immediately melted and started smoking with nothing plugged into it. Really need some advice here, feel like there's something simple i missed.
Would it be better to just run a positive and negative wire direct from the battery to the outlet? I was hoping to not have to do that, which is why i bought the positive bus.
Thanks,
Joe
I wanted to add a cigarette lighter style power outlet to charge my phone for gps purposes. The attached diagram shows how i tried to hook it up (i didn't include the other accessory connections as those still work fine). Obviously i did something very wrong, both negative and positive wires going to the outlet immediately melted and started smoking with nothing plugged into it. Really need some advice here, feel like there's something simple i missed.
Would it be better to just run a positive and negative wire direct from the battery to the outlet? I was hoping to not have to do that, which is why i bought the positive bus.
Thanks,
Joe