Reply to "Pantera Electronics Fusebox"

Got my Pantera Electronics fusebox installed. It took a while though, mostly my own fault. The recommendation is to move one wire at a time, obviously. But I simply didn't have room for both fuseboxes at one time with my old stiff and very tight wiring loom. So I had to take all wires off the old fusebox first.

The critical incoming wires, I got them right reading the instructions. But when I got to 20+ wires feeding from it, I ran into problems. First of all the wires' colors didn't match the instructions fully, neither the marking on the fuse box. Secondly the fusebox itself had different markings than the instructions showed. So while most were obvious, I had to get help from Jon Haas, so we had a few mails going back and forth. It was of course difficult for him to analyze remotely, but in the end it worked out. Of interesting problems along the way were A/C that only worked when lights were on (a IGN+ wire incorrectly put in Lights area) and one of the B/W wires that feed the interior lights was in IGN+ area, so with Ign off the was a constant half strength interior light draining my battery.

So my recommendation is to try to move one wire at a time as I didn't and then test all systems, and ensure there's no current draw on the battery *) when there shouldn't be. And then contact Jon, he'll be happy to help.

*) I've seen many ways to check that, but I think Jon's is the most conclusive, remove plus cable, connect test light and volt meter between plus cable and plus on battery. If it lights up you have a serious draw, as I had