no power inside vehicle

Actually Peter, unless the other fuses on that box are U/S he won't fry the alternator, BUT this should have been solved on the first post. i.e. Change a fuse or fuses. As a super diagnostician this job would have been done in 10 minutes. And charged for an hour.

IMO he shouldn't fry the alternator anyhow. IMO they are usually (else should be) self protecting as I have mentioned elsewhere (with relevant exceptions).

Good. It looks like Howard's bloody advice paid off yet again. (When did Howard become an Aussie?)    IMO those flinks should be carried as a spare. Even my Mum even has spares for her car. Usually one spare (of each size) is enough, though 2 spares are good after finding the first blows soon after fitting. Find & fix the fault and use the 2nd spare. [ Or get n+1 spares if a "trial and error" fault finding technique is used n times. But that's where circuit breakers or a headlight may be better... ] And don't forget that fixing such a fault can be as simple are removing and reconnecting a flink or fuse.

I don't know about Aussies and other colonials such as Americans and Canadians but in the old country we call 'em CROC CLIPS!!!

Funny, we call them alligator clips. Yet we don't have aligators - we have the fearsome salty (salt-water) and docile Johnson crocs (despite Myth-Busters claiming the Johnson Crocodile is ferocious - but that's consistent with all their other fkups... busting aerosols to refit tyre beads, or Lucille Ball's teeth not picking up AM radio - what a bunck of CROC). Incidentally Howard, the Aussie reference was to you using the bluddy term. I thought we Aussies had exclusive rights to that!

Dates back to Shakespeare! A fine swear word back in 1950s England but the F & C words have replaced it in the general vocabulary. Remember words change, "walker" has a far nastier meaning in the UK than it has in the US. And remember "American English" dates back to 17th. century English with spelling changes introduced by an American President in I believe the 1830s. "Australian English" dates back to 19th. century English. "Upper Class" English dates back to the fashionable landed gentry slavishly copying that kraut George I's atrocious English.

I see the mods used "walker" instead of a word rhyming with "banker". Ah well, I'll be a Silver next.

Everything goes back to U.K. English, the Aussies / Canadians and Americans just improved it a bit.    I do like the term Flink for that fuse. Soldering is fun!

I like the French for spark plug, bogy.. no I lied it's bougy. Actually the German for Fuel Injection is my all time favourite. Einspritzen = One spits in.