Lannis,
Don't have the answer, other than to suggest that it was tradition or
perhaps a Lucas thing? It seems that other Brit cars made around the same
time as mine (mid 60's period) also didn't have any fuses for the lighting.
The people that knew this on their MGs were puzzled by this, as was I. North
American cars of the period had circuit breakers built into the headlight
switch, as well as fuses for all circuits!
After having some wiring burn up (on the turn signal circuit if I remember),
I decided it was time for an inline fuse where none were provided & proper
size fuses (replacing the 35 & 50 amp Lucas ones in the holder) for the
smallest gauge wire in the circuit. A rude awakening in Morgan wiring.
Cheers,
Fred Kuzyk
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-----Original Message-----
From: LSelz@aol.com <LSelz@aol.com>
To: CHarris990@aol.com <CHarris990@aol.com>; morgans@autox.team.net
<morgans@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, May 17, 1999 8:45 AM
Subject: Re: Morgan wiring continued
><<<Was there any reason for this? The headlights are the
> highest-amperage things on the car outside the starter. Why did they
design
> such a thing? >>
>And what is your question?
>Harris>>>
>
>In specific rather than rhetorical form, my question is this: Is there an
>engineering basis for the fact that the headlights on a Morgan, which are
>high amperage and heavily used, have no fuse, which means that any
>inadvertant grounding of a wire will inevitably cause a fire? This is even
>more of a mystery because the horn, which is only intermittently used and
>would probably not start a fire, has a fuse all to itself.
>
> Lannis
>
>
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