Secondary Fuse Block for Interior Circuits

[F1point4]

Wanted to share out of my journal. Enjoy
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Originally Posted by F1point4

Tuning!

Well...tuning of the wiring inside my cabin. Since I purchased Lola I have added a few gadgets to the inside. Traditionally I've been a fan of using add-a-circuits to the stock fuse box, but it is getting crowded and adding a gauge to the car would make things messier.

I decided to get a fuse block and clean up all my wiring because I believe in clean. Haha. It'll also make wiring the gauge a lot easier since I don't have to add a 5th add-a-circuit to my fusebox and add a 5th wire to the ground screw. Removing add a circuits also prevents my accessories from messing with the circuits i'm tapping into.

I have four accessories I planned on wiring up
Dashcam, Radar, AVO Throttle Controller, AEM Gauge

This is no DIY, just pure information. Please note there are a lot of ways to achieve what I did.


Let's go


The foundation of my system. BlueSea Systems 5025 Fuse Block.
The cover to the box can hold two spare fuses. A 15 amp fuse comes with it. The only thing I don't like is that the box is kinda big, and it uses the big ATO(?) fuses. I'd like if it was consistent but can't win them all. I also couldn't find a good fuse block on amazon so I kinda settled on this one.
http://www.bluesea.com/products/5025..._Bus_and_Cover

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Cover off. It can support six circuits. Has a ground and positive bus. Supports 30A per circuit. I could add one of these under the hood for my lighting circuits

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Before pictures

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That connector on that white L plastic bracket has to move. Easy enough to unclip from the bottom.

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It moves to make room for my mounting circuit. I chose this area because
1) I didn't find a good spot on the passenger side
2) I didn't want to run a wire directly to my battery. I didn't need that kind of amperage. The accessories that I was hooking up to the block are switched by ignition so I didn't need an always hot connection to the battery
3) This was close to the stock fuses, so I can tap into it for power for the block
4) I wouldn't have to run a ton of new wiring, or move all my accessory wires

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Cluster of wires

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Fuse box cover off. You can see I have four add-a-circuits here. Getting busy under there

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I digress

People have asked me how I mounted the hardwire for the radar. Here are two pictures. Not the cleanest, but it can't be seen and it works

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Going to work


Ground wire

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Positive wire - It will tap into the fusebox on a non system critical circuit - cigarette power plug. I just put moderate sized fuse in it. 10A. Plenty to support what I will be using it for

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Coming together

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Before of all my accessory wires.

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The after. I wrapped everything and shortened some wires.

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Danbo showing off

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Labeled cover

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Much better. The fuse block is taped on with 3M Red double sided tape

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I'm not totally finished with adding the gauge so I don't have final pictures of what everything looks like. What is there so far looks very very clean.

Hope this gives people some ideas on keeping stuff neat under there.

[xjohnx]

I'd been wondering how to do this cleanly. thanks for the post. gave me some ideas.