how not to connect to a fused circuit

I came across this on another forum and thought it was interesting.  I've never seen anyone do this before, which makes it special to me.

Notice in the bottom left hand corner they have soldered wire to the top of the fuse, and apparantly melted the plastic away. 

wow... seems like that would be very technically challenging to be able to solder a piece of wire like that ...

what's more interesting is that you read japanese!

Ha, I don't read Japanese, I just look at the pictures!

hi,

seen it before, done it too!...Accele i think sells fuses with wires tapped off the top side like shown. they aren't soldered however, (i think maybe spotwelded?)  then the plastic case of the fuse is molded around the element  part.  assuming you use the lead off the fuse properly i.e. add an additional fuse and holder close to the fuse you decide to derive power from, i really don't see a problem with it.  if the wire breaks, dead circuit.  i wouldn't power anything critical to the operation of the vehicle from it though.

just my two cents

mark

as KartTuneMan notes, in an unused socket...if the fuse blows then the accessory added ceases to work.  i'm not saying i do it every install but there are instances where it is quite convenient.

m

I guess I'm just used to going to the ignition wires and adding actual fuse holders, or tapping in to an already fused OEM circuit (like the cigarette lighter).

I'm really surprised the connection holds up, solder isn't really designed to form a 'mechanical' connection like that.