Michael, once when driving my MG Midget back home from your part of the
world I had the misfortune to hit a small deer. The damage to the front end
of the car was pretty severe and pinched the wires to the headlights, but
the lights stayed on long enough for me to get the car safely off the road.
The headlight wiring was fried, but the lights would have gone out
immediately, I think, had a fuse been in the circuit.
Steve Byers
HBJ8L/36666
BJ8 Registry
Havelock, NC USA
From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at
autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Michael Oritt
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 3:00 PM
To: Peter Schauss
Cc: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Inline fuses
Norman Nock always warned against fusing the headlights circuit for the
reason that Peter mentions and I have never understood the logic. If a
short would take out a fuse on a circuit protected with one why would it not
take out the wiring on one not protected?
FWIW I have two fuse panels, one for circuits switched by the ignition and
another for those that are always hot with a separate fuse for each
appliance, including the headlights.
Best--Michael Oritt
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