Is this faulty ??

[campagquinn]

Can you guys help me please. Just wired this fuse box in. Live on left negative on right. I have wired in 3 circuits but not put any fuses in yet. I'm getting live 12 volts coming out and into the brown wires at the bottom surely there should be no live there until I put the fuse in

I can only think the fuse box is faulty ??

 

[MarkW-T6]

Do the connections with no brown wires on also have 12v on them? If you disconnect the +ve supply to the fuse box on the left do the brown wires still have 12v on them?

 

[campagquinn]

All the terminals across top and bottom have power to them. Il try disconnecting the live and see.

 

[MarkW-T6]

If all the terminals have 12v without the fuses then the fuse box must be faulty.

 

[campagquinn]

Across the fuse block I get 13v and on the terminals I get 11v if I remove the live terminal wire I get zero

 

[MarkW-T6]

Faulty fuse box.

 

[campagquinn]

Thats what i thought. Thanks for helping best get onto where I bought it from. Cheers

 

[Dellmassive]

That fuse box has the LED indicators to show when a fuse is blown.

Your multimeter might be picking up leakage current frody LED.

Have you actually tested put in a fuse in an out to say if the brown outgoing wires do actually power up and power down without the fuse.

There's not a lot inside them fuse boxes just the central bus bar and then the output terminals which are connected to the other side of the fuse holder.

But there is a LED and resistor connected to the output terminal to light up the LED when the fuses gone.?

Might be worth just checking that.

Another test you can do without multimeter is use it on owns mode and see what the ohm's resistance is between the negative and a fuse box and the outgoing fused connections..... If the fuse box was faulty you would have a very low ohm's reading probably below 10 ohms.

But if it's leakage current n over the diode then you will see a very high resistance above 100k for example.

 

[campagquinn]

You were right. Little bit of leak back. Rayne told me its normal and once a fuse is in the slot it will work correctly which it is now. Madness but a simple fix. Thanks for your help