April 2, 2014
I ran across Dan’s really clever idea for a fuse holder while at Steve’s Marine.
He just took a terminal strip (Euro strip) and a couple of crimp fittings and inserted an automotive type fuse. Brilliant. I bought parts to do this myself.
He used a slightly different crimp connector and cut the plastic insulator off the wire end.
Here’s our previous post about Steve’s Marine. -Rich
Update:
This happened in an expensive, marine, fuse holder and not this improvised one (which may have been better). I think the important take-away from this is to make sure the fuse contacts are completely free of corrosion and oxidation. My fuses had been sitting on the boat for a few years. They didn’t look bad but the subtle oxidation that was there increased the contact resistance to the point that the fuse melted. See this post.
