Fuse holder under your hood by battery melted and you need help!

Reading through the Thread it seems most suggest to get a better Fuse Holder, however there might be more to why the fuse holder melted.

We suggest you do the following to make sure your Fuse Holder does not melt:

  •  Ask your local guys down at the audio store/garage to have a look at your Fuse Holder if it is the right one
  • Make sure your Manifold is not too close to your Fuse Holder
  •  Make sure your Fuse did not blow

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Drifting10

ok so this is what happened.. my fuse holder under the hood by the battery was perfectly fine until my brother in law asked me to play a certain song on a cd of his to see how hard it would thump with my system. I did so and then once we were done I shut off my car and went in the gym (this was in the parking lot before our workout) so when we finished I got in my car and turned it on, only to find out that for some reason my subs werent hitting anymore..

I took out the multimeter and saw that I was getting power to the amp through the remote wire but not through the power wire, so I looked under the hood only to see that the fuse holder melted where the wires connect to it.

what the hell was that all about?? I did have the bass up a little more than usual but not much

any ways my wire is 4 guage

what can I do to prevent this from happening again once Ireplace the fuse holderand fuse if I want to turn my bass up that high again??? and why did this happen???

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Comments (5)

isaac Reed - July 4, 2019

im having the same problem....

isaac Reed - July 4, 2019

from what i found, you can up the guage in your power wire to 0 or 2, and get a better quality
afs/anl fuse holder. ill let you know how it works after i try it. Mine went out last night

IkeGrizzly - July 4, 2019

the amp is drawing too much power for the size power wire and creating too much heat, and/or just cheap @ss fuse holder. Mines cheap boss 4 guage. Im gonna get the kicker fuse holder and switch to 2 guage wire

IkeGrizzly - July 6, 2019

i was wrong , im running 8 guage wire, gonna go to 4. I replaced the fuse holder and its all good!. I went with the kicker anl fuse holder and 80 w fuses(my amps 60w). Hope this helps

Jay - August 12, 2020

Hi, I also had the same problem with the fuse holder, which it over heats the fuse terminals for the cables and burned the cable ends. Ive Replace the fuse holder with better quality one which can with stand high current and high temperature. Seems like its doing the job.

Definitely worth investing in a decent fuse holder not the cheap ebay untested one, which I did at first.