Automotive Blade Fuse Sizes

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Automotive blade fuse sizes.

All bussmann series blade fuses meet or exceed oem and sae standards. Fortunately blade fuses are also colour coded. You replaced the head light bulbs with fancy new high output bulbs. There are three common blade fuse sizes.

Regular blade type fuses available from 1 amp to 40 amp. There are several automotive fuse types but today we re talking about the blade style fuses found in most modern cars made after 1980. 1a black 2a grey 3a light violet 5a light brown tan 10a red 15a light blue. 99 4 00 coupon applied at checkout save 4 00 with coupon.

So even if the amp rating number is illegible you can still determine the fuse rating by its standardized body colour see below. Keep in mind that there are several different types of blade fuses beyond the standard atc size too including micro mini and maxi styles. The wire capable of handling the larger load go ahead and increase the fuse size. In terms of size low profile mini fuses and regular mini fuses share the same body height and width but the spade terminals of low profile mini fuses barely extend past the bottom of the body.

Do not increase the fuse size for the headlights. The easyid indicating blade fuses use led technology making it easier to spot blown fuses in panels tucked in dark locations. They are rated 32v dc. Where space permits a miniature circuit breaker is sometimes used to replace a blade type fuse in the same fuse holder.

The previous amp had a 40 amp fuse the new amp requires 60 amps. 19 1 x 5 1 x 18 5 colour code of automotive blade fuses. Automotive blade fuses are the industry standard used in most domestic and imported cars today. 44 subscribe save.

Blade fuses use a common coloring scheme for the micro2 micro3 low profile lp mini mini and regular size fuses and a partial color similarity with the maxi size fuses. Micro2 fuses are the smallest type of blade fuse and they are easily identifiable by the fact that they are so much taller than they are wide.