Fuse blocks

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Fuse blocks

August 03, 2006, 11:01:50 PM

Does anyone know of a fuse block that takes wire larger than 4 gauge? I'm guessing I'll have to run a seperate fuse holder for 0 gauge but I'd still like to know if there's a block that can handle everything in one.

What about one with more than 4 fuses/outputs? Somewhere around 6 or 8 for future upgrades. Already have foglight relays, headlight relays, fan relay, the amplifier (where the 0 gauge comes in), and something else I can't think of at the moment.

Engine bay is looking a little messy with so many single fuse holders.

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Reply #1 – August 04, 2006, 10:08:34 AM

Well most of the blocks I've seen only have the four fuse setup. Also they used to make an adpater to let you use 0/1 cable in a 4 gauge spot. Goto to a stereo shop they have some nice wiring products. Also most of there big fuse block have more than one input/output for the 4ga cable making it very easy to add another fuse block without having to run more wire to the battery.

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Reply #2 – August 04, 2006, 10:54:30 AM

Yeah, I picked up a few wiring items from ebay last night to try. Wanting to use 30A blade style fuses for most of these.

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Reply #3 – August 04, 2006, 06:26:35 PM

Try looking for cop car fuse panels. I think it was in '03 that Ford started including a fuse panel with each cop car. Some shopes used 'em, some didn't (ours didn't, at the request of the RCMP, as they wanted the equipment wiring to stay the same for all years). I have one, but I'm keeping it. I actually made it out of several, because the factory one has a few empty relay and fuse slots. I pulled the terminals and put them all into one, so it has six relays (four 30-A, two 40-A), six MAXI fuse slots (I think these are the 30A blade style fuses you refer to) and six mini fuse slots. When I redo my electrical system again I'm gonna use this setup for my fog, headlight, electric fan and ignition switch relays. My ignition switch now controls relays instead of carrying the current itself, but the relays are just hanging under the dash (out of site, but it bugs me knowing they're there). I did it more for necessity, so neatness wasn't the big priority - the remote starter kept burning harnesses because of too much current.

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Reply #4 – August 04, 2006, 07:05:52 PM

I lied. There are actually 18 mini ATO spaces (of which I've got 12 sets of terminals installed) and 5 MAXI ATO spaces (of whichg I've got three sets of terminals installed - in fact, since I moved I have no idea where those pigtails are). Anyway, some pics of the fuse panels and relay block:

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Reply #5 – August 05, 2006, 12:44:03 AM

those look like great all in ones for everything medium-current. Have to look into them.