[DeTomaso] Just whe I thought it was safe to go backinthe water...

[Tomas Gunnarsson]

Øyvind,

That was the original claim but it was later said not to be the actual case, at least not from the factory. Now we're debating the general practice of paralleling fuses. :-)

With that said I'd like to add that on my car I found that removing all fuses still left some systems powered. When I removed the fuse box I found an automatic fuse wired in parallel with one of the "normal" fuses which provided power at all times. Just when you thought you'd seen everything... :-|

Tomas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dagny Kristine Bakken" <dagny-kr at online.no>
To: "'Tomas Gunnarsson'" <guson at home.se>; <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: den 10 juli 2007 20:56
Subject: SV: [DeTomaso] Just whe I thought it was safe to go backinthe water...


Guys,its very common to bridge a feedwire into the fusebox,so that it supply
several fuses and their electric consumers,but are you saying that De tomaso
has connected together two fuses on the output side too!?
Øyvind 

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Emne: Re: [DeTomaso] Just whe I thought it was safe to go backinthe water...

You can parallel fuses although the slightest difference in resistance in
the wiring, fuse holder etc will offset the current one way or the other
leading to a lower rating than in this case 2x10 A. The skin effect is an AC
phenomenon and will not affect these fuses in a DC situation.

Tomas

----- Original Message -----
From: "Al" <chelini at cox.net>
To: <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
Cc: <teampantera at yahoo.com>; <detomaso at realbig.com>; <SOBill at aol.com>
Sent: den 10 juli 2007 17:59
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Just whe I thought it was safe to go back inthe
water...


> Mike,
> 
>  From what I remember, one can't parallel fuses to increase the amp 
> rating; i.e., due to "skin" effect, you can't put 20 amps thru (2) 10 
> amp fuses wired in parallel .
> They are either the correct rating for the amp load, or they are not . 
> S O Bill?
> Don't ask me why deTomaso chose to wire that way.
> Al
> ===========
> 
> MikeLDrew at aol.com wrote:
> 
> >In a message dated 7/7/07 21 33 53, chrisvkimball at msn.com writes:
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> >>However, why would both fuses be blown (which is what I found)?
Shouldn't
> >>it only have blown the fuse to which the piggy-backed fans were
connected? 
> >>This makes me think maybe the other fuse was already blown and I didn't
know
> >>it, and that's why I had an overheating problem.
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >  
> >
> >>>>Coould be, although presumably you would have *looked* before buying a

> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >third fan. :>)
> >
> >If you look at the wiring diagrams, and/or inspect the back of the
fusebox, I 
> >believe that you will see that fuses 11 and 12 (where fan power comes
from) 
> >are actually connected together for some strange reason.   So, the two
fuses 
> >share the load between all the components which are on what you would
think are 
> >separate circuits.   (Bill Taylor, please confirm or deny).
> >
> >Presuming this is indeed the case, then by dramatically overloading the 
> >circuit, you could have blown both fuses at the same time.
> >
> >Yes?   No?   Maybe?
> >
> >Mike
> >
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