1999 Ranger Dash lights and all Instrument gauges quit working???

[moe2o56]

Hi guys I just installed a Kenwood xceleron radio from crutchfield in my truck and after installing it that night went to get in it to go somewhere and turned the lights on and noticed that I had no instrunent cluster lights. I accidentally put the dimmer wire with the illumination wires together which blew the 15 amp fuse. So I tied the dimmer wire off and it fixed it from blowing the fuse. I fixed that by replacing the 15 amp fuse under the hood it was in slot #11 in the fuse box by the master cylinder. Once I got that fixed and the lights came on I had no gauges. None of them work, no tacometer, no speedometer, no oil pressure, no battery gauge, and no temperature gauge. I have not one clue what's going on with it, I checked every fuse in the truck and found nothing. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

 

[gungfudan]

you might have blown the voltage regulator