Re: "Short circuit"
Barry, your right but most of the guys in here are all old time restorers or hot rodders, alto some terms may not be correct but in there venicualr they know what it means, kind of a hot rod slang, and in my world a sort circuit is a circuit that goes to ground before it reaches it intended destination,usually before the fuse and burns up the wiring harness at the least, the car at the worst, a short circuit can happen after the fuse with no serious problem, but still a short circuit, in our world a blown fuse is called an over load, to many amps being drawn for the fuse size, and as far as open circuits almost all circuits in a car that are switched are open circuits, head lites, brake lites, radios, turn lites, back up lites, all are open circuits till the switch is operated closing the circuit, what im trying to say is all the terms used in our hobby may not be correct terminolgy but we do understand what is being said, and by the way welcome to our little group
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