I'm a novice when it comes to electrical, so bear with me.
I have juice to all the fuse clips connected to the 'hot' side of my fuse panel (my circuit tester (test light)) lights up, but when I touch the fuse itself with the circuit tester, the tester does not light up. And neither do the fuse clips at the other end of the fuse. It's not just one fuse clip ... I have three brand new fuses and two old ones, and they all have the same result.
The input to the fuse panel comes directly from the battery.
I have a multi-meter, but I'm not sure that would make a difference, or what values I should look at, except I've tested the hot into the panel as 12 volts.
The reason I got into this was because none of the switches I had hooked into the top of the fuse clips worked. This is a boat I'm restoring, so it's not like they worked before and now suddenly stopped working. I have no idea if they ever worked, but it just doesn't make sense to me that touching the fuse wouldn't show 'hot'. The panel is old and the clips, while not corroded, do have a 'patina' on them.
Thanks for any help.
BTW, I'm talking about the fuse type with the glass tube in the middle.
I have juice to all the fuse clips connected to the 'hot' side of my fuse panel (my circuit tester (test light)) lights up, but when I touch the fuse itself with the circuit tester, the tester does not light up. And neither do the fuse clips at the other end of the fuse. It's not just one fuse clip ... I have three brand new fuses and two old ones, and they all have the same result.
The input to the fuse panel comes directly from the battery.
I have a multi-meter, but I'm not sure that would make a difference, or what values I should look at, except I've tested the hot into the panel as 12 volts.
The reason I got into this was because none of the switches I had hooked into the top of the fuse clips worked. This is a boat I'm restoring, so it's not like they worked before and now suddenly stopped working. I have no idea if they ever worked, but it just doesn't make sense to me that touching the fuse wouldn't show 'hot'. The panel is old and the clips, while not corroded, do have a 'patina' on them.
Thanks for any help.
BTW, I'm talking about the fuse type with the glass tube in the middle.