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Could some one post the amp sizes for the 6 fuse
spaces on the panel for the VS.
If you have a light and don't know the amperage. How do you figure it out with a volt ohm meter?
Now lets say my headlights are 15 amp and my driving lights are 10 amps. Could I put them together on the same circuit and what size fuse would they need?
Thanks, Deane
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Could some one post the amp sizes for the 6 fuse
spaces on the panel for the VS.
If you have a light and don't know the amperage. How do you figure it out with a volt ohm meter?
Now lets say my headlights are 15 amp and my driving lights are 10 amps. Could I put them together on the same circuit and what size fuse would they need?
Thanks, Deane
I'm not an electrical expert, but I would leave the lights on different fuses. If you wire them all to one and it burns out, you'll lose all your lights at once. The same is true for the lights on the back of the car; you'll have brake, running and turn signals back there, plus whatever you have for your license plate light.
I'd wire those right to the diagram (the library section, above, should have one for your specific car).
I'll open my fuse box and see what I put where, but I can promise the wires aren't run the same way and the amperages will not be the standardized recommendations. My whole wiring job is non-standard.
The references in the VS manual are here:
https://www.speedsterowners.com/library/vsmanual1/images/vsowners_pg6.jpg

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I repeat does anyone have the Vintage Speedster
fuse amperages? I can't find them in any publications.
I have been to my vs lititure and my John Muir(not the
hiker)book and it doesn't give any specs either.
The VS only has 6 fuses just like the 61 bug. I found the
fuse box for a 61 bug on the web, but but that doesn't give
the amps of the fuses.
As for the testing of the unknown wire.
I was told to put in a 5 amp fuse and if it blows put in a
10 and so on.
Now I know NASA doesn't do things er Never mind...
About twenty hours between two guys (and no book to go by) ...
I'm still going to crack my fuse block today, and I'll let you know what's wired where. I'll take a picture and label it tomorrow morning (Sunday).
I'm using the VW-style fuses, and I have plenty more of them if the amperages apply to you.
Rewiring: I've been through this on a number of Speedsters, the VS harness is easy as well as any street rod harness but with those you have to consider that most are configured for a GM column, easy to split that section of the harness for the speedster.
If you understand basic wiring and can do a simple switch, fuse, bulb circuit, you can rewire a speedster but also helps to understand the principal of a faulty ground that tends to back feed through a bulb as we have all been there. it is always best to do one item ata time and power that up to confirm that it is correct. To do so after you have done a number of conections can make for some hair pulling trying to locate a bad connection.
Deane, I went out today and fired the Sloppy Jalopy up in the sunshine. I was out there long enough to remember a couple things -- one is that I was gonna check those fuses for you. The other is that I forgot to take my vitamins. They look the same, except the vitamins have these brass tapers in them that are hard to digest. The fuses look like horse-pills and have a horrid, dirtlike aftertaste.
Okay, seriously; each circuit in the car has an eight-amp fuse. They're the old Bakelite kind, with the metal hourglasses on the outside of the plastic. If I remember right, they're all color-coded, and these are an off-white, eggshell color. I thought I had remembered putting ten amp fuses in for the headlights and foglights, but I might have just gone with what was on hand. They've been working fine for almost two months now, and there's no sign on any of them to indicate they've been getting hot.
The wiring scheme has the headlights, brights and taillights on one fuse, the foglights and parking lights on another and the brakes, turn signals and their flasher on a third. The tach is on its own, as is the fuel pump. The other slots either support the main electrical components on the engine or are open. Their are eight slots in the fuse block.
Hope that helps.
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