Add-a-Circuit for Jamming New Stuff into Fuse Boxes

[Suburban Plowboy]

Today while going through hell trying to run a hot wire to my W.R. Long remote "kit" and install the final hose clamp to keep a hose off the right rear tire, I learned something interesting.

After going through the misery of running the valve's hot wire around and under the tractor to the fuse box, I found out that Kubota had made a fuse box for maybe 20 fuses, but on the back side, there was only enough conductor for FOUR. Glad they saved half a yen on that part.

I had no idea what to do. Adding another fuse to the box was impossible. Maybe someone out there sells the metal stuff that goes on the back of fuse boxes, but believe it or not, I didn't have a drawerful of such parts in my shop.

I found out about Add-a-Circuit. This is a product you can get at an auto parts place. It has prongs like a fuse. You pull a fuse, put the Add-a-Circuit in its place, and put the old fuse and your new fuse in the Add-a-Socket. It has a wire that goes to your new circuit, and the wire comes with a connector crimped to it.

Now my fuse box cover will not go back on, so I have to figure that out, but I thought I should recommend this product to other desperate people.

 

[bcp]

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Bruce

 

[Suburban Plowboy]

Thanks, but you still need some place to plug it in.

 

[Alan W.]

Amazon.com

 

[Suburban Plowboy]

Thanks. I have been looking at that kind of part, but I haven't been able to find out if they are universal. Think it will fit a Kubota?

 

[BravoXray]

Thanks. I have been looking at that kind of part, but I haven't been able to find out if they are universal. Think it will fit a Kubota?

Those are what is used in my BX2230 and my JD430 fuse blocks. I have a few in my electrical parts bin.

 

[Suburban Plowboy]

I dunno. Do I really want to gamble 7 dollars? I can almost buy a burger at Wendy's for that.

 

[LouNY]

I prefer an additional fuse block fed a main circuit breaker.

 

[repete]

Is this to be switched with the ignition or hot all the time? If hot all the time, just add what bcp suggests.
If it is to be switched by ignition, perhaps there is an alternative like a relay that can be added to a switched circuit and control a higher draw circuit by bcp's method directly off the battery

 

[Suburban Plowboy]

It's switched. The Add-a-Circuit was installed yesterday, but I want to use the original box so the cover will fit. I ordered to $7 terminals.