If the fuse protected the wires before, it will still do it.  The wire size hasn't shrunk.

Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Mills" <scmills@TNTECH.EDU>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 12:09 PM
Subject: Headlight upgrade questions

>
> I upgraded my '78 Westy headlights using the ever popular relays feeding
> directly from the battery via an aux. fuse panel.
>
> 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.
>
> Chris M. <"Busbodger" of "TEAM SLOWPOKE">
> Cookeville, Tennessee
>
> ICQ# 5944649
> scm9985@tntech.edu
>
> '78 VW Westfalia (67 HP -> that is...67 Hamster Power)
> '65 Beetle - Type IV powered
> '99 CR-V AWD station wagon
> '81 CB900 Custom moto-chickle
> 2.5 Corvair engines for my Trans-vair Conversion
>
>