That exact thing happened to me on my ICE Pantera. I wired the cooling fans with an Auto Zone inline 30A fuse and the Auto Zone relay that I used to trigger it blew in the closed position. The constant load heated the plastic and burnt the fuse holder without blowing the fuse.
Now I use a fuse in a Siemens block mounted on the bulkhead with a Bosh relay. I figured I got what I paid for. sean On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 10:18 PM, Jay Summet via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > > On 01/04/2016 09:59 PM, Lee Hart wrote: > >> Jay Summet via EV wrote: >> >>> Has anybody ever melted the plastic and holder of an Automotive ATC >>> fuse, without blowing the fuse itself? Impressively melted photos here: >>> http://www.summet.com/blog/2016/01/04/melted-fuse-leg/ >>> >> >> Two possibilities occur to me: >> >> 1. Fuseholder not rated for the current. 30 amps is pretty high for a >> simple quick-connect type terminal. You normally don't use them above 15 >> amps unless they are specially made for more, or have good cooling. >> >> There's a good reason that high-current fuseholders are made of >> bakelite, ceramic, or some other non-meltable non-combustible material. >> Low-current ones get made out of cheaper meltable plastics. >> >> > I believe the fuse holder and fuse came as a single package from Autozone, > so they SHOULD both be rated at the 30 amp fuse rate.....but I agree it > doesn’t exactly look like an especially high quality/current fuse-holder. > > I've ordered a replacement that is slightly "beefer" looking but still out > of plastic. 8 GA wire and 40 amp fuse in a package with the holder. > http://www.ebay.com/itm/391180385602 > > (But I'll also be driving to AutoZone and/or Napa tomorrow to see what is > available locally....) > > > 2. Fake fuse. Some outfits sell really cheap no-name fuses that are >> basically just any old piece of scrap metal in a fuseholder. Who knows >> at what current it will blow (or *if* it will blow at all). >> >> > It was an Autozone part... > > Jay > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -- Sean Korb spk...@spkorb.org http://www.spkorb.org '65,'68 Mustangs,'68 Cougar,'78 R100/7,'60 Metro,'59 A35,'71 Pantera #1382 "The more you drive, the less intelligent you get" --Miller "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -P. Picasso -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20160106/f5e64d6d/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
