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Someone recently requested a picture of the circuit breaker mounting just below the instrument panel on the left, near the vent. I’d like to see that again but am unable to locate it. My wires are trying to pull the breaker from the mounting clip.
I'm in the process of putting my car back together. Is this the breaker? I assume one wire goes to the fuse box and one to the harness. Does it protect the entire dash harness? Do you know haw many AMPS it is?
Can’t answer your questions, but that is the breaker. My recollection is that it protects the headlight circuit, but I’d need to check the wiring diagram to verify.
The circuit breakers sold by Corvette vendors are 40 amp. If you have power windows, there is a second breaker of the same size nearby. The headlight breaker protects ONLY the headlight rollover circuit. It ties to the large red wire coming out of the bulkhead connector, and that same wire feeds the power to the fuse box, headlight switch, cigarette lighter, ignition switch and power antenna. All those are connected to the red wire coming from the bulkhead connector and NONE of them are fused in any way. Those items have full voltage anytime the battery is connected. After one of those red wires connects to one side of the breaker, the other side goes to the center (red wire) on the headlight rollover switch under the dash to feed power to the rollover circuit.
This diagram shows 20 amp, but 40 amp is used: The 12 gauge wire shown coming in from the left is the one that comes from the inboard most firewall bulkhead connector. It comes from the horn relay up front, through the wiring bundle to the connector.
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