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Hi folks,

I've been doing some work on the ceffy and installed a few gauges. I started the car and all worked (smiles all round). I then walked away, came back and started it again and the ignition went out completely...

I thought hmm that's strange, I'll check the fuse box. Upon inspection the "Meter" fuse connection has totally melted away but the fuse was unmarked and in tact. The area wasn't hot either so I've asked the prev owner if this happened while he had it.

The headlight fuse blew as well but I've established that is because the gauges draw too much for the 10amp fuse when the lights were turned on so I chucked a 15amp in there.

Anyhoo my question is - what exactly does the "Meter" fuse actually do as everything seems to work still.....

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Thats for all your running lights/park lights (includes interior/dash lights) and I think that fuse also for the warning lights, tacho etc on the dash cluster.

Take that 15A fuse out and use a 10A, wire the guages in somewhere else.

The wiring on that circuit is only rated for 10 amps.

What I'd do is use one of the currently un-used circuits (phone, ABS, etc) to run the gauges, or make a new circuit running either full time off the ignition, or off a relay that is triggered by that meter circuit.

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Thanks mate.

I confirmed with the old owner that the "meter" fuse was fried due to a short when he had the car (thank god!). The "meter" circuit is actually not in use as all the lights etc work even without the fuse in there so based on what I could gather, he has rewired this circuit into another fuse (not sure which one....)

The one I put the 15amp in is the Head Lamp fuse so when the lights come on it will dim the gauges. I might just check a relay in there and run them off that with a fused 12v.

Fun and games investigating years of wire destruction and repair haha!

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