Golf Cart Fuse Replacement for Dummies

Typical golf cart

Sometimes as our staffer wander the internet – though usually they’re just wondering “WTF, internet?” – they come across freelancers they just can’t trust from the first exposure. Oh, sure, some people are perfectly at home with explaining internal combustion engines but can’t be trusted with skin care, while others are kitchen wizards who couldn’t lay bricks to save their lives. We watch these people, kind of, and every once in a while look to see what they’ve been up to. Yup, today’s nominee is one of them: she’s eHowian Tammy Bronson, who wondered way out of her comfort zone to tell people “How to Fix a Blown Fuse on a Golf Cart” for ItStillRuns.com.

Maybe Bronson’s driven a golf cart or two in her time. After all, as she gleefully explained in her introduction,

“Golf carts serve a greater need than just driving on the golf course.”

Unfortunately, when it comes to making simple repairs to a battery-powered vehicle, Tammy probably wouldn’t be much help. She sure as heck wouldn’t be much use in explaining what fuse to buy to replace the blown one, since she misinforms her readers that,

“…the current rating needs to be the same when replacing. An example is a 10A current level on a 250V system is replaceable with a 5A current level on a 17V.”

We looked around: she got that bit of information by rewording (incorrectly) an article about fuses for game consoles that included the suggestion,

“…it is perfectly ok [sic] to use a 5A, 250V fuse in the slot that says 5A, 17V.”

That’s pretty good evidence that Bronson can’t copy-reword-paste information about electricity, not to mention that she doesn’t know that that letter A stands for…

Tammy goes on to explain that you’ll need to

“Search for the broken fuse. This process can look cumbersome. Pay attention to what part of the electrical system isn't working. When you discover the malfunctioning part of the electrical system, you know the name of the blown fuse.”

Sure you will: we think its name is Hermione! Bronson is clearly out of her depth: blown fuses are pretty easy to identify; it’s figuring out why they blow that’s “cumbersome.” Additional evidence of Tammy's unsuitability to provide this advice is her instruction to

“Read the inside panel to determine the level of current the fuses are set to take at a maximum voltage.” 

Heaven help any poor fool unlucky enough to try to parse these ridiculous instructions, and shame on Leaf Group for migrating garbage like this from eHow to one of their new niche sites. We can’t even figure out who most deserves the Dumbass of the Day award: Tammy, her content editor, or whatever drone okayed migration of this rubbish!

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