Neat blade fuse idea

OK so you are all going to tell me it's old hat I suppose!!

This seemed like a really neat idea to me as a plain blade fuse
alternative.
www.holden.co.uk/viewProducts.asp?supergroup=Electrical&analysiscode=0460&groupname=Control%20Boxes&group=084

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, 'Hog

Very neat!

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Superb. And you can always gaffa tape it down it it keeps popping
up......

 

Hmm, nifty idea, but at ?8 seems a bit overkill.

Are blade fuses really ?1.99 each now?

 

I had them on my old Ariel Arrow FFS!

 

You're not wrong there, Nigel. A thing of practical beauty and would
come in BDH for testing a circuit that is blowing fuses constantly -
then TOG's suggestion could be employed ;-)

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

That's an even better idea than nails and cigarette foil.

 

Read into the site a little deeper. They have a version that resets
automagically each time the power is cycled. Lovely job.

 

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Seems like a good idea, I had a circuit breaker like that on an
amplifier power feed to a 12 volt car amp, and after a year or so in the
engine bay... it no longer worked when it needed to. It was only by luck
that it didn't start a fire. I don't know if it was the heat or the
moisture that broke it.

Fuses are good things, they don't have moving bits in them.

 

Damn useful when fault finding in my job.
Especially when there are more faults than first anticipated in a cable.

Had 4 of em for ages.

 

those are fuckin' NEAT.

no 30A model, mind. But apart from that, the only drawback I see is the
price.

 

Very handy looking, but I certainly wouldn't shell out 8 quid for one.


Yonks ago I made up a blade fit test bulb for those holders. If there's
a short on the circuit, you can't blow the bulb - it just lights up.

 

dwb emerged from their own little world to say

No. My local car spares place sells them at 30p each. None of this blister
pack nonsense.

 

dwb fumbled, fiddled and fingered:

Local pound shop had a pack of 50 or so for .. well a pound

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Bollocks!! you might not like it but it's not prohibitive. Being left
stranded on a dark/cold M6 has changed my attitude to such things!!

 

(& plus VAT)

There's a slightly cheaper type (7.55 +VAT, up to a quid less for bulk)
at:-

http://www.zackfords.co.uk/product.asp?P_ID=147

Although these don't have the neat isolating switch.

Mike

 

Wotcha.

Excellent idea.
On my trikes I use normal sized household type circuit breakers - but I have
the room for such things.
I can see a few of these being fitted when I next re-wire a bike.

 

Yup. Kin pricey.

I blew my way through a complete pack of non-resettable fuses [1]
before I gave up and took it to the auto electrician.

Still didn't come to 8 quid.

The auto leccie's bill however did come out at somewhat more as he'd
had his head stuck up behind my dashboard for half a day ;-)

Cheers

Paul.

[1] Pip will recall us dismantling my tow hitch electrics on a
windswept driveway to find the errant glow worm that has escaped;-)

 

ISTR that we did every fuse we had of the right rating, including the
spares from my car fusebox. Then didn't it turn out to be a dodgy
front sidelight that was causing the problem?

Yours wasn't the only uk.r.m.-owned vehicle dismantled on that
driveway - not by a long shot. In most cases it was even colder and
wetter than that occasion. Some of them even went away fixed ;-)

That streak of luck wasn't abandoned when we moved, mind. I gave up
trying to fix the lights on my own trailer a couple of weeks ago and
bought a new trailerboard. Luxury. Halfway round the M25 it made a
break for freedom, smashed one of the clusters and cracked both
triangles.

I spent a frozen-fingered hour yesterday sorting it out, but the right
indicator refused to play. Tracing forward, it transpired that one of
the brand-new grubscrews in the brand-new connector had wandered off,
releasing its captive wire. There's a plus ca change thing to do
here, I suppose <shrug>

 

www.holden.co.uk/viewProducts.asp?supergroup=Electrical&analysiscode=0460&gr
oupname=Control%20Boxes&group=084

We were looking at them the other day in the Vehicle Wiring Products
catalogue - very nice.