likemytruck, I am glad you found your problem and equally glad to help.

Christobal, circuit breakers in most stock automobiles can be thought of as automatically resetting fuses. Your house electrical system has manually resetting circuit breakers that once tripped (overloaded), must be manually reset to restore power to that circuit.

Automotive circuit breakers are typically a little larger than a fuse and housed in a zinc coated metal housing because of the heat involved if it were to trip (overload). After the circuit breaker cools off, it completes the circuit again.

As far as where they are located and specifically what they look like, that is vehicle specific. If this is related to another thread you have on this site, please ask it there.

 

On the fuse box, there should be 2 silver colored fuses. (They look like boxs) They are 30 amp fuses. You can go to your local auto store and replace them with 30 amp circuit breakers. Just check they have same plug ins on back side. Also check that they are circuits breakers, it say it right on the package, and not just fuses. It works for my 1993 s-10 vin Z.

 

Those silver colored devices *are* circuit breakers. They can go bad over time or through repeated activation.

Make sure to keep the rating of the original device (whether circuit breakers or fuses). Failure to do so can result in permanent damage to your vehicle if the circuit overloads and melts down...