2006 Honda Ridgeline No electrical

Very often fuses blow when connecting a charger that is already turned on or when reconnecting a battery, from the surge when computer memory circuits charge up. All that's needed is to find them and replace them. But when really large fuses blow, it is because the charger was connected backward. You're going to have a lot of blown fuses, both under the hood and inside the car.

In particular, computers and radios have diodes built in for this reason. A diode is a one-way valve for electrical current, and it's placed in those items backward, so it's turned off and not doing anything. When the polarity of the battery or charger is reversed, the diodes turn on and act like a dead short to force the fuses to blow. That protects those devices. Once the polarity is corrected, the diodes usually weren't damaged by the high current and will go back to doing what they normally do, which is nothing. All that's needed is to replace the fuses. If one of those diodes did short from the high current, the replacement fuse will blow again right away.