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Hi, Thanks for the advice. It's unlikely to be my dome light; I haven't installed it yet! I'll have a look at the black wire, but I seem to remember that the wires from the ignition switch was the first thing I looked at. Daniel Baum 1969 Type 34 automatic http://www.qldesign.com/type34 > Daniel wrote: > >The problem is, that when I start the car after not having used it for some > >time (a few days to a couple of weeks) it blows a fuse. I can turn on the > >ignition and the two warning lights light up, but then when I switch on the > >starter, the fuse blows. It is always the same one. In the Haynes diagram it > >is No. 8 (counting from the left), connected between the voltage regulator > >terminal B+ and terminal 30 of the hazard warning light switch. This, as you > >can see, is a pretty major wire, and the fuse is just 8 amps. Could that be > >the problem? > > Daniel, are you talking about the diagram on page 163? If so, it might be > your dome light switch or dome light connection as it also gets power from > the same fuse. You may also want to check over the black(? not sure about the > color when the diagram is in black and white) wire that goes to the ignition > switch to see if it might be grounding on something. Those 2 items are really > the only ones that are fused at that location. > > > Would it be safe to put a bigger fuse in instead? > > No, don't do that as you risk burning up the car doing that. > > >Most of my electrical components are standard, but my voltage regulator is > of the >new solid state type. After I change the fuse everything works > happily for the rest of >the day. > > Maybe after changing the fuse you've moved something that allows this to > happen, but the regulator being solid state shouldn't make a difference. > > > However, if there were a short, wouldn't it always blow the fuse? Every > other short I >have ever created consistently blew a fuse until I fixed it. > > You would think that, but it might be something thats drawing extra current > for that brief moment, or maybe something that is just intermitant. > > I don't know if this helped or not but it might give you a couple of ideas. > Let us know what you find though as it might help someone else. > > Bob 65 Notch S w/ Sunroof > 69 Squareback-AT > > ------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> > For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/ ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/