Mark Jones wrote: >> I am curious if any of you that are running a Facet fuel pump are fusing the positive lead? <<
I'm not using a fuse or a circuit breaker. In my book that's one more point of failure. My Karmann Ghia didn't come with a fuse between the coil and the battery either, and that's also the way I wired mine. VW was probably thinking that a sudden engine failure on the autobahn was a lot more dangerous than some smoking wire, and their coil wire runs the length of the car, and is even siamesed to the backup lights! Now before a bunch of people start saying "hail Marys" for me, I should explain that I have a complete backup electrical system, just like Larry is talking about. It's all in a single switch on the panel. I flip one DPST switch and I swap out the distributor's points (I have dual points), condenser, the coil, the ignition switch, the fuel pump, and the battery with a fresh new set. I'll check it on runup, just like a mag check. I guess since I have a complete spare system, I COULD put a fuse on these things, but I just don't like that extra point of failure. Fuses are there to protect the wire. My wire is pretty big, and if anything starts smoking it'll be time to flip that switch. I'd rather see a little smoke and still have the engine running, than have the engine quit and then force me to restart it at in inopportune time. The wires between switch and coils is about three feet long, and you can be sure I've done my best to bulletproof it. That's just my level of comfort, and I don't expect everybody to see it my way. I was assailed on CorvAircraft for not following Bob Knuckoll's mantra, but to me, it makes sense. Some folks have backups for this, switches for that, contactors for something else, etc, but I suspect that under pressure, about all I'll be good for is flipping one switch, and I'm quite comfortable with my setup... Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama N56ML "at" hiwaay.net see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
