Tried plugging my small air compressor into the 12 volt plug today to top off the tires and it blew the 5 amp fuse. Any danger in swapping out the fuse to a 10 amp?
There's probably a reason it's fused at 5 amps. You could substitute a 10 amp but I would have an extinguisher handy and keep an eye out for smoke...
Which reminds me of a story... Years ago I had a 64 Rambler station wagon. Every seat in that vehicle would recline to near horizontal....I loved that car but it had a tendency to warp heads after my mom ran it out of coolant. It had a flat 6, I think, and the oil filter was sitting on the top of the engine. Interesting design. I once got over 30 mpg on it and that was when gas was cheap. I once bought gas for 17 cents a gallon before the first oil embargo.... Yep, they were the good ole days.
Anyway, a fuse kept blowing and I didn't know why. I had the great idea to wrap it in foil and then drive it. About 5 minutes in smoke billowed out from under the dash and I pulled over. Found that a wire was rubbing on the parking brake cable and was causing a short. Good news was that I found the problem. Bad news was that I melted a good quarter of the interior dash wiring.
There's also a moral to this story and that is be careful in upping fuses just because you want to run something that has more power consumption than what's rated for the circuit. Bad things can happen to good bikes. With that being said, let us know if the bike survives.
