Hello everybody 'Lurgs' here welcome to my channel and today it's how to test car van
or motorcycle fuses with a car blade fuse tester, this means that you don't have to remove the fuses
for this you're just checking the circuit of the fuse you're not actually checking for 12 volts
so you don't need the ignition on, first thing to do is locate your fuse boxes normally there'll be
two maybe three on a car or a van, before I test them inside the van I'll just show you how this
car blade fuse tester actually works and it's got the battery built in it's a sealed unit now you've
got adjustable pins so you can test different sizes of fuses there's obviously different sizes
normal fuses, mini fuses and here's a typical car fuse and we're going to be testing it on
the top here but just to show you how the car blade fuse tester works I'm just going to adjust
the pins to this size of the fuse and just place it on here just to show that it's got a circuit
and when there's a completed circuit the LED green light lights up so that means that fuse is good
now obviously when the fuse is plugged into your fuse box you can only test the top
that's why you've got this exposed metal on the top here so place the pins onto those connections
and again the green light has come on if the LED light doesn't come on it means the fuse is blown
now you can actually use these to test fuses in your mains plug sockets
this one's got a nice clear glass you can actually see whether it's broken obviously that one hasn't
but these are normal fuses here three amp one where you can't see so it's handy to have one
of these just around the home anyway in case your kettle stops working you can just quickly
check the fuse! At the other end of the car blade fuse tester is a fuse removal tool which is quite
handy if your car or van doesn't actually have one now let's test some of the fuses so make sure you
get a good connection and you can just go one by one testing each fuse if your fuse has blown then
obviously the LED light will not light up then you can remove it and replace it with a similar
amperage fuse now the only problem I found with this car blade fuse tester is access,
it's a bit of a lump and getting access to some of the fuses if they're in a tricky position is
quite difficult so it may be easier to test them using a Multimeter and there's a link above now
about how to do that. If you want to go old school you can use the back of the car blade fuse tester
just squeeze it onto the fuse pull it out and then what you're doing is you're basically
just holding that up to the light so this one is in good condition no problems here
but here's one that's actually blown you can see it's burnt this one would obviously need
replacing now when you're replacing a fuse make sure that you use the same amperage fuse
as the one you took out and it's written on the top of the fuse
so if you remove the five amp fuse make sure you replace it with the exact same five amp fuse,
if you're lucky enough to have a fuse removal tool still in your car or van then you can use that
this basically just pushes onto the back of the fuse
once it's clipped on then you just pull it and it pulls the fuse out of the socket I'll
just show you how that works just in front of the seat here as you're pushing this on
it just clips over the back now it's gripped on and then you just pull it
If you are testing fuses old school and you're just going to be taking them all out make sure
you do it one at a time don't take them all out because you'll never remember where they go back
remember to put your fuse removal tool back and a quick tip if you've got a
fuse which keeps blowing don't replace it with a higher amperage fuse just to try and
get around it fuses are there for a reason and they blow to save your car or van catching fire
if there's an electrical fault so you need to try and figure out why the fuse keeps blowing
in the top left hand corner there's a video on how to test fuses using a multimeter
in the top right there's a video on how to test brake lights by yourself
that's really useful if you're taking your car or van to an MOT and in the bottom left how to test
your car or van battery using a multimeter hope that was useful time for another brew