"common feed" fuse block?

[Farrar]

Hi, gang.

As I was poking around looking at aftermarket fuse blocks I saw a term on some of them that made me wonder. Some of these fuse blocks are labelled as "common feed." I assume this means that there's a single feed for the entire block from the battery. Anyway, I am just curious: is the stock DeLorean fuse block a "common feed" fuse block or not, and are there any advantages or disadvantages to one over the other?

Thanks,
Farrar

[Bitsyncmaster]

The OEM and new DMCH fuse blocks have no common terminals. Every terminal has it's own power and load pin.

Not many circuits in our D are wired directly to the battery. So if the block has common power pins you would be limited in what gets wired to those loads.

[Farrar]

Thanks for the info!

So it sounds like a common-feed fuse block is more primitive than what would be used in a modern automobile. I wonder what situations those would be used for, then?

Farrar

[Bitsyncmaster]

Thanks for the info!

So it sounds like a common-feed fuse block is more primitive than what would be used in a modern automobile. I wonder what situations those would be used for, then?

Farrar

Can't think of what good it would be except to save a few wires. But your feed wire would need to be a larger AWG. I don't think you would want to mess with AWG 8 or AWG 6 going to a fuse block.