well welcome back to Steve Robb reviews today I've got a pretty exciting video I'm going to show you
everything you need to know about automotive fuses I got two boxes of automotive fuses here
for you and you know they're the small ones and then you got the big ones and are they any good
to use for your vehicle these are like 6 bucks for 500 and I mean should you use these things
we're gonna test them we're gonna find out so what it is I set up a little bit of a display here I've
got a heat gun and I've got a drill so the drill would be a variable amperage input and I got my
meter and we're going to start testing some fuses and what I'm gonna do is I'm going to pick five
amps because I do have some real 5 amp fuses and I'll show you how the difference is between both
of them use guys decide whether you want to use these in your vehicle whether it's a good choice
or not and what are the repercussions so let's get down to the science experiment right here I'll get
the camera zoomed in on the my meter my meters going to be showing amperage and I'm going to
turn the heat gun on first and then I'll slowly pull the trigger on the drill and the amperage
will glop and we'll see what happens well I've got you pretty well zoomed in there and here's my
drill which will give me the variable amperage and we'll put the the heat gun here on first and we'll
see now I have a 5 amp off-shore wing-wang fuse in there right now 5 amps okay we're sitting at
6.2 let's add some variable amperage okay slowly bring her out seven blue at seven okay let's try
that again now I'll turn the heat gun off pull the fuse out yeah use guys take a look at that
baby there yeah she's she's she's bold let's grab another one let's see what happens here
okay you ready zero it out six point two like last time that's
about the same then we'll add some amperage here
okay guys eight-point doing it still won't blow let's see if we can make a blow it just
stirred her up wide open here yeah she didn't blow cuz she went up to ten these guys want
to try now on let's try another one let's open the box here grab another one here turn that off
reset these guys ready gone
there we go
there that one blue in a different rate didn't it so I got eight amps out of that
one first one man she went Full Tilt it wasn't gonna Bowl now what are we gonna do guys I got
three real fuses here and I'll show you what a real fuse looks like and I'll explain how
that is a real fuse in a minute so let's turn the heat gun off let's take the wing-wang out
keep this in here there we go reset this here we go so this one here the real viewers held at 6.2
let's add some amperage guys at blue already 7.2 okay we'll take that one out let's try another
real one turn the heat gun off throw it out start keep going up see ya blue again eleven point four
so what can we get from this okay so what can we take from all this experiment guys this is
the the real fuse here and you could see it's got the white lettering in it and apparently if
it's got the white lettering and it's actually a certified fuse you're not gonna get you know
five hundred for five bucks like you know you could see in some of these sets and these are
very consistent and I believe you only get what you pay for you can't expect consistency out of
getting the great big giant box of fuses for like next to nothing I have tested them before in the
past and they're all over the map they're up and down like come on like we're close to 10 amps
there and the wiring today on automotive vehicles for you that are in the automotive field you know
this already but years of gold they used to have the wiring that was much larger than the amperage
capacity that it could carry today they're only putting in the wiring with a little bit of leeway
on amperage control because you know what more wire thicker wire it's heavier costs more so do
you really want to trust a certified fuse that you're going to get for maybe four four three
dollars or you know a couple hundred for five bucks six bucks that kind of stuff you know at
these discount stores I'm saying beware I mean you can fry your wiring in your automotive vehicle so
easily that's gonna cost you a fortune and you know what you see many times watching automotive
videos where the professional technicians will show that somebody actually put in a higher rated
fuse and it was supposed to have just to see if they could get the circuit going in the first
place or stuff like that now could you imagine taking one of these that are supposed to be say
a 5 amp and you stick in a 10 and it actually goes up to 20 and you know it's dangerous so
you know what I say beware of these you know giant box stores or whoever selling this stuff
I'm not too sure you know of so many fuses for so little price and then you look at the other
boxes with four for three dollars and you're wondering wow they're ripping me off well no
no no they're not they're actually giving you a fuse that's consistent and it's rated for the
right amperage yes there's a little bit of leeway up and down but you know what you only get what
you pay for so I hope you guys got something from this little bit of an experiment yeah it
looks like a lot of wiring going on here but I'll tell you what it's well worth not experimenting
when it comes to fuses and your vehicle so thanks for joining them in here today you haven't seen
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