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ryanheacox · 08-19-2019, 08:00 AM

One mark against having one fuse to protect all of the circuits is that is you have a short somewhere, everything dies.

Normally this isn't very dangerous but one night I was driving home and forgot about the intermittent short in my dash light and when I went to turn it on I blew the fuse and lost everything... no headlights, no taillight, no brake light... and no ignition. Luckily I was heading into town when this happened and no other cars were nearby so I got it into a parking lot and changed the fuse. Had that happened any earlier I would have been on the shoulder of an unlit 50mph road with no lights in a dark car.. no good.

This post is getting long but in the end I still think having a fuse is the safer alternative. You may, however, want to consider putting individual fuses on short prone circuits.

08-19-2019, 08:00 AM	#8
ryanheacox Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Northwest CT Posts: 1,092	Re: Model A fuse. One mark against having one fuse to protect all of the circuits is that is you have a short somewhere, everything dies. Normally this isn't very dangerous but one night I was driving home and forgot about the intermittent short in my dash light and when I went to turn it on I blew the fuse and lost everything... no headlights, no taillight, no brake light... and no ignition. Luckily I was heading into town when this happened and no other cars were nearby so I got it into a parking lot and changed the fuse. Had that happened any earlier I would have been on the shoulder of an unlit 50mph road with no lights in a dark car.. no good. This post is getting long but in the end I still think having a fuse is the safer alternative. You may, however, want to consider putting individual fuses on short prone circuits.