Shorted Out NEED Help Like Yesterday......

wow, a whole thread and you are only replying to yourself...... guess this is the wrong night to get any answers

Yeah there's a fuse for the cig lighter ... do you have an owners manual? If so, open it and there is a fuse description page. Or if you have a worthless Haynes, it should have fuse info .. If you don't have either, I will go look at mine for you.

As for your battery looking nasty ... use baking soda stirred in warm water and get a brush. Keep rinsing off the funk. After you get all the acid build-up off and before you put on your new terminal connectors, get a terminal cleaning brush and clean them (they are cheap if you don't know). Before putting your terminals on, get some vaseline and put some on each terminal (will keep corrosion from coming back) ... Then, I recommend getting terminals like these:



The gold terminals conduct really well and they are not much $


Oh, and for the inverter ... I would recommend just running a 10 or 12 gauge wire from the battery into the car to run it. That way you could run an inline fuse, switch, etc ... and you would not have to worry about blowing fuses ... food for thought.