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brdprey
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Sep 21, 2016

finding the right fuse

consider this. it's dark, the heater goes out. you know its a fuse but you cant tell right away.
you get a flash light, you lay on the ground after removing the fuse face plate.
"you forgot your tester!" bah, now you have to pull some to find it.
my question to you. has anyone used these fuses before? are they worth the extra price tag that comes with them?

in case the link does not work. they are led lighted fuses. when you end up with an open link from a blown fuse the led lights up to inform you of which one it is.


https://www.amazon.com/Bussmann-ATC-ID-SK-easyID-Fuse-Assortment/dp/B004AHC322/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1474464457&sr=8-1&keywords=led+fuse

13 Replies

  • It's no different than the 12V fuse panels that have blown fuse lights in the fuse panel, just with the LED (and associated resistor) in the fuse rather than the panel. The fuses presumably would have a pair of LEDs back-to-back so as to be polarity insensitive.

    An ordinary multimeter suffices to check fuses. You can either check for voltage across them when in place (there should be none) or check the resistance when they're pulled (it should be a short circuit).

    I personally would not bother with these fuses because I have a fuse tester/puller in my RV all the time, and my fuse panel is inside rather than outside, and the fuses are reasonably well labeled so that it's not too much of a guessing game to figure out which one would be keeping the furnace from running.
  • Interesting product but not something I would buy. In the past 30 years I doubt I have used more than a handful of fuses and most of those have been on the chassis not the rig. Most furnace issues are associated with low battery rather than blown fuses and many of use have switched to electric heaters when we have shore power so we would check circuit breaker rather than fuse when those go out. Just my 02.

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