All,
Well, I followed the advice I got earlier this weekend from (Valerie?)
and everything was cool. A real live Lucas fuse, in the inline fuse
holder, did the trick. Don't know why, and don't much care. Now I can
feel my feet whenI get out of the car.
Thanks for the input...if anyone needs encouragement to recklessly
disassemble a perfectly good MGB (OK, not perfectly good...) don't be
afraid to send me a note.
--KS, getting the orange beast ready in front of an apartment
Paul Hunt wrote:
>
> 30 amp is probably too high if all it is protecting is the motor, that
> rating is used in the main fuse block to protect multiple circuits. The
> fuse won't protect the motor (unless you charge your batteries direct off
> the mains) but it will protect the wiring, switch etc upstream if you get a
> short downstream of the fuse. You must have a duff fuse or a holder with
> bad connections (I am assuming you didn't literally mean that you pulled the
> fuse but left the holder in circuit and the motor ran).
>
> PaulH.
>
> BTW. Does an 'inlune' fuse protect the light of the moon?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl Shultz <karl.shultz@ibm.net>
> To: MG List <mgs@autox.team.net>
> Date: 02 January 1999 19:22
> Subject: Lucas not all that bad
>
> >Also managed to run a new wire to the heater motor (thank God...it's
> >cold outside!!) and it works fine. But I'd like to put an inline fuse
> >somewhere in there so if it freaks out, it won't blow up the switch or
> >the motor. I bought a 30-amp blow rated inlune fuse, put it in the
> >wire, and it no longer worked. Pulled the fuse out and it worked just
> >fine.
> >
> >Is this something worth hassling with, and if so, any suggestions here?
> >
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