Calling all Honda experts!

[JohnAn2112]

Hey all,

I have a 99 Accord EX and I just ran into a problem. I have 2 devices that I connect (one at a time of course) to my cigarette lighter that I use often, Sirius satellite and cell phone charger. Last night, I was charging my phone on the way home from work, then went out later and plugged in my Sirius to listen to it and I lost power to my Sirius unit and my CD player. I figured I just blew a fuse to I went out and got one and swapped it out this morning. I turned on my car and my CD player had power again. Great! Then I went to plug my Sirius in and it died again. I took out the new fuse and noticed that it blew too. I replaced it again and now I'm back to the point where my CD player works, but now I'm scared to plug anything into the cigarette lighter.

Any ideas where I should start looking?

 

[Toastedlightly]

work your way back from the lighter to the fuse. Check for a bad wire. Those fuses are 15A, aren't they?

 

[Hyperlite]

yessir you have a short somewhere. from the sounds of it, it could even be a problem with the power adapter for the sirius unit, if plugging other things into it doesn't cause the fuse to blow.

 

[natto fire]

I would try plugging the cell phone charger in again. It sounds like the problem is in the Sirius power adapter drawing too much current. How long after you plugged in your Sirius power did it stop working?

Do not bother checking the wiring on the car first, until you check the Sirius charger. If there was a short in the car's wiring, it would blow the fuse immediately.

Edit: Oh, and another *very remote* possibility is that the design of the plug itself is shorting the cigarette lighter, and you just recently had it at the right rotation to do it. This is highly unlikely, but not impossible.

 

[thomsbrain]

Yeah, I would plug in the phone charger and see what happens. If it works fine, you'd want to look at replacing the Sirius power adapter.