Fuses on the panel, or not

For a very clean power distribution option, have a look at

http://www.powerwerx.com/powerpole-power-distribution/

Anderson 15A Powerpole connections for all the instruments, with blade fuses on master and all outputs.
Alternatively, there are fused Power Distribution blocks without Powerpoles on the "fuses & circuit protection" page.
Jim

On Friday, October 18, 2013 8:23:28 AM UTC-7, wrote:

I would appreciate a steer to any small mini-blade fuse blocks or low amp mini-fuses.

On Saturday, October 19, 2013 3:34:50 PM UTC-4, JS wrote:
For a very clean power distribution option, have a look at



http://www.powerwerx.com/powerpole-power-distribution/

Aside from the expense what about http://www.powerwerx.com/powerpole-p...orizontal.html

and also assuming you have space for this near the instruments.

I have a Microair transponder which has some type of an internal electrical circuit that uses on shutdown. In cases of low voltage it simply will not shut down. In a couple of instances after very long flights I was getting to critically low battery voltage and was going through a sequenced shut down of equipment. When I got to the Microair, it would not shut down because of the low voltage. Fortunately I had the fuse on the panel and with my thumbnail could shut it down that way.
For what it's worth,
Roy
On Monday, October 14, 2013 at 8:10:12 PM UTC-4, SF wrote:
My big winter glider project is going to be re-doing my control panel. I have been looking at a lot of panel pictures recently and I notice that a lot of them have panel mounted fuse holders all over them. My experience with our panel mounted electronic gizmos is that if they blow a fuse, replacing it inflight is not going to do anything for you. Once the magic smoke gets out it's gone. So I'm looking at a terminal strip that incorporates the mini blade type fuses into the strip, and reducing the number of holes in the panel.

Has anyone ever replaced a glider fuse in flight and had something good happen?

SF

14, 2013 at 8:10:12 PM UTC-4, SF wrote:
My big winter glider project is going to be re-doing my control
panel. I have been looking at a lot of panel pictures recently and
I notice that a lot of them have panel mounted fuse holders all
over them. My experience with our panel mounted electronic gizmos
is that if they blow a fuse, replacing it inflight is not going to
do anything for you. Once the magic smoke gets out it's gone. So
I'm looking at a terminal strip that incorporates the mini blade
type fuses into the strip, and reducing the number of holes in the
panel.

Has anyone ever replaced a glider fuse in flight and had something
good happen?

About 20 years ago, I replaced a vario fuse in flight, but that's been
the only one in 40 years of glider flying. The vario worked fine, and I
have no idea why the fuse blew. A few years ago, I put the instruments
on mini ATM fuses in a block behind the panel, and I like that arrangement.

--
Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to
email me)
- "A Guide to Self-Launching Sailplane Operation"

https://sites.google.com/site/motorg...ad-the-guide-1
- "Transponders in Sailplanes - Dec 2014a" also ADS-B, PCAS, Flarm

http://soaringsafety.org/prevention/...anes-2014A.pdf

I started to reply to this and then I noticed Hey, I'm the one that started it several years ago. Here is how this story ended up.

I installed a terminal strip with a inline bladed fuse on every terminal. One side of the terminal strip is a 12V bus. Every instrument hooks up to its own individual terminal. Have a large toggle (locking) switch to connect each battery to the 12V bus. Each device without it's own on off switch, has a small toggle (locking) ON/OFF switch on the panel. The only panel mounted fuse is for the (unswitched) gear horn circuit. just in case another of those dang magnetic switches falls off in flight again. 3 seasons on the new panel, no regrets or issues.

SF