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anybody run mini-breakers in their fuse panel?

Discussion in 'XJ Modifications' started by Militant_Buddhist, Sep 17, 2010.

  1. Militant_Buddhist

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    for folks that have converted away from glass tubes.
    I've been thinking about it and it seems I very rarely blow a fuse but when I do it's usually due to a short somewhere and can easily go through three or more fuses finding it. I've heard the mini breakers will get weak with age and vibration so I thought maybe the best use of them would be to keep an array of them as spares in the tool kit or at home in the tool box and only whip 'em out for trouble-shooting. By gosh, they could save me a whole dollar or two over the next five years.

    Thoughts? opinions? feedback?
     
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    Ive never really had one of the glass tubes blow on me.

    This last week I had a blade type fuse basically melt and disintegrate on my KZ though.

    In my experience with electrical work, once your start messing with stuff, thats when everything goes wrong. lol.
     
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    fuses are not meant to be a diagnostic tool :)
     
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    Mind if I use that in my sig line? 8)
     
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    no copyright here, open source all the way
     
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    I just recently replaced the glass fuses to the blade fuse, not the mini fuses though. i havent had anyproblems. i had to, the guy who had the bike before me destroyed the fuse box, wires going everywhere.
     
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    any time someone talks about replacing a fuse panel i recommend against the micro blade style simply for the fact that I have only once, ever seen them at 7-11 at 3am. The standard blade style is the way to go.
     
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    Pretty good logic there!
    +100

    To bad I don't have any local 7-11's just walmarts depending where I'm at. Not that I travel much at 3am.
     
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