Hello Guys and Girls it's Lurgs here. Today how to test your Car Van or
Motorcycle fuses without having to remove them all so what you've got here
is you've got a typical fuse box in your Car or your Van and it's full of fuses
and no doubt if you've got a secondhand vehicle you haven't got a fuse box
diagram so you've got no idea what they are and if you've got something blown in
your Car or Van something's not working you don't want to have to be taking out
every single fuse holding up to the light and seeing if it's blown or not.
I mean you can do it like that but I advise you to stop right there because
what you can do is you can test the fuses without having to remove them. Now
this is what the fuses look like these are all my spares all the good ones what
you're going to need is you're going to need a Multimeter and you can also have
a set of pliers because you might need to remove the dodgy one. So this is a
typical fuse and you can see on the top of the fuse
you've got the two bits which you can get the Mltimeter terminals on and that
it completes the circuit so you can test that without having to remove it. Great
little tip. So on your Multimeter you want to set it to the Ohm setting on the
lowest setting mine goes down to 20 ohms and that's the setting that you want.
Right so now we can start testing the fuses in the fuse box. So at the moment it's
not reading anything because I'm not touching anything so what I'm going to
do now is just touch it on the 10 amp and you've got a reading on there so
that means it is working that fuse is okay now apologies here I am NOT an
electrician I don't know anything about electricity all I know it is when I'm in
a room there is electricity So this is testing the 15 amp one and that is
working now what I'm going to do now is test one which I know
definitely doesn't work because I've planted this, so this one is not working and
Voila we've got no reading make sure you've got a good connection on the back
there on the metal terminals and we've got no reading so now if we take this
one out and then go old-school and just hold it up to the light you can see this
one is blown so that's a really handy tip instead of having to take out every
single fuse which to be honest I've done in the past, so I think that deserves a
quick cup of tea!
'Hey careful man there's a beverage here huh'
When you're working on the motor always have a nice cup of tea. So just to
show you the fuse when it's out just to test a working fuse as you can see in
the background the multimeter we've got a reading on there this is a good fuse
and just testing it on the top this is basically just to show you how it works
it's a little bit clearer when it's away from the fuse box and this is the blown
one which I'm just going to test for you here just to prove that my theory works.
Not that it's a theory it's just real and as you can see no reading and just to
double-check on those terminals no reading so get yourself a multimeter and
you won't have to take out all of your fuses and that is the end and if you
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that is today's life hack top tip cheers guys and girls check you later