Fuses on the panel, or not

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.

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- "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