i’m needing to swap out a blown fuse again in my ic40 power center, and i’m completely over the stupid location on the old ones that is impossible to get to and get the fuse out. i’ve watched a few tutorials on bypassing it by pulling the wires from that location and wiring in a new fuse holder inside the box that is much easier to reach and replace, so that’s my project for today…but i did see one such tutorial that seemed to change it from a slow blow glass fuse to a spade type. is there any downside to doing this or should i stick to the slow blow glass cylinders? don’t the newer power centers use spade fuses anyway?
bypassing the fuse on ic40 power center
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C,
It sounds like a good plan, and I doubt it will make much difference what type of fuse..
That said, that fuse should almost never blow.. When it does, 80% of the time it is a bad cell, the other 20% a bad surge card.
If the fuse blows without the cell connected, then the surge card is bad. If it blows just when the cell is connected it is usually the cell.
Thanks,
Jim R.
It sounds like a good plan, and I doubt it will make much difference what type of fuse..
That said, that fuse should almost never blow.. When it does, 80% of the time it is a bad cell, the other 20% a bad surge card.
If the fuse blows without the cell connected, then the surge card is bad. If it blows just when the cell is connected it is usually the cell.
Thanks,
Jim R.
it absolutely can’t be a bad cell, it’s literally brand new. i just installed it a month ago. we were just in europe for two weeks and came home to a dead cell.
changing the fuse was my first order of troubleshooting. i’m just glad i put the floater in with tabs before we left otherwise i would have come home to a swamp.
i ended up going with the glass fuse holder since i already had four fuses on hand. disconnected the two legs on the bottom fuse holder, wired each side to opposite ends of the inline one and put in a new fuse. i have power to the cell again and a much easier fuse change in the future should it ever be necessary.
