On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Chris Mills wrote:

> Now that my headlight switch is only driving the headlight relays and the
> toggle relay (high/low beam) - - should I reduce the fuse for the original
> circuits? The new headlight circuits are fused at a new fuse panel out back.
>
> I'm thinking a pretty major short to ground would have to occur to blow the
> OEM fuses at 8 amps - enough to melt the wiring before the fuse blew.

I don't think there should be any need for that.  The fuse is presumably
correct for the size of the stock wiring, so it should protect things
adequately.  The fact that you now have less of a load on that circuit
doesn't really change that.  The only reason to downsize the fuse would be
if you'd replaced some of the wiring with a lighter gauge.

I've blown 16A fuses with brief shorts to ground, so I wouldn't worry
about the 8A not blowing. ;)

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