Add circuits to fuse box?

[Liencouer]

Is it possible to add circuits to the in-cabin fuse box? I am going add an AC-inverter, and would rather run it on its own dedicated, fused circuit instead of splicing into another circuit. There are empty fuse slots from the front of the panel, however I'm not sure what is available from the back side (and I figured it would be worth asking if anyone knew before I break my spleen trying to look behind the panel).

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: UPDATE: So I dug out the fuse box from under the left of the steering wheel. It has 8 (unique, thank you Nissan!) connectors that insert into it. I went through with the continuity tester and beeped all the connector pins through to the fuse pins. From the looks of it, all that will be needed to use the stock fuse panel for new circuits is to find the crimp that you'll need to put on the end of your wire to slide into the connector, and find a free fuse and you're golden.

I'm going to whip up some diagrams to better illustrate which connector pin goes to which fuse; I'll post them here when I'm done.
Modified by Liencouer at 5:36 PM 7/8/2009

[Mr.Coupe]

I'm not sure dude. You could try and post a thread in the Audio / Video Forum of the Altima section on the link below. I think you should be able to get better info there unless someone here could help you out with your question here...http://forums.altimas.org/zeroforum?id=246

Good Luck

Ricky C.

[LongBeachCoupe]

The easy way to do what you are saying is to just put an INLINE fuse.. its simple.

If you were going to wire it to the fusebox, it would be a headache, running the wires thru there etc...

ALL THE BIG BOYS USE INLINE FUSES!

Welcome to NICO!

[marlin29311]

The easy way to do what you are saying is to just put an INLINE fuse.. its simple.

If you were going to wire it to the fusebox, it would be a headache, running the wires thru there etc...

ALL THE BIG BOYS USE INLINE FUSES!

Welcome to NICO!

+1 - I mean, it's possible to wire to the box and create a hard line, but seriously why would you want to go through the trouble to do that? It's sooo much work and totally not worth it....

[Liencouer]

+1 - I mean, it's possible to wire to the box and create a hard line, but seriously why would you want to go through the trouble to do that? It's sooo much work and totally not worth it....

It's possible in the specific sense that there are instructions on how to do it somewhere, or possible in the vague sense that anything is possible, so long as you try really-really hard? ::cue Disney movie::

Is there something somewhere that shows how you would go about wiring into the box? I suspect that it is one of two setups. Either there are many small pin-count connectors on the back of the fuse panel, and its just a matter of finding where to get one of the connectors to add a circuit, or there is one large connector, and its a matter of finding which pins you need to add to the large connector to add the circuit.

Either way, all I want to know is if someone has done this before and has some guidance on how to do it.

[marlin29311]

You could try paging through the FSM, but you're not going to get really far - it's more of a trial and error (and lots of it....) type thing - any of the guys over in the A/V section will tell you what LBC said - trying to run a wire is just not worth it.

I mean, if you do it, take pics and show us all how, but no one else has done it because it doesn't make much sense!

[Liencouer]

I mean, if you do it, take pics and show us all how, but no one else has done it because it doesn't make much sense!

Sounds like a plan. Now it just needs to stop raining for 5 minutes so I can get out there and take a peek...

[dangeris]

I haven't added any circuits to the AC yet but when I had my FJ Cruiser, I added some and it was fairly simple. I just ran a thick azz thnn wire (8g) from the battery to a new fuse panel and used one of these with ATC fuses. Makes for a more OEM look install instead of using the piggybacks fuses

[Liencouer]

I haven't added any circuits to the AC yet but when I had my FJ Cruiser, I added some and it was fairly simple. I just ran a thick azz thnn wire (8g) from the battery to a new fuse panel and used one of these with ATC fuses. Makes for a more OEM look install instead of using the piggybacks fuses

Same idea, although I'd prefer to just wire them into the stock fuse panel. Soon enough I'll get out of work and have a chance to take a peeksies at what is under there.

[dangeris]

well good luck and if you decide to take pictures along the way of your install, we can make an article about to help others who want to do the same thing, providing it isn't the add a circuit piggyback thing. Oh and there's a custom title for ya too