Originally Posted by
cruzalekz
big difference between the two. a short never reaches the load thats why current increases and toasts wires and blows up fuses.
a bypass eliminates all the other swtiches but the current still gets to the load thereby not damaging anything else on that circuit.
big difference between the two.
That's just one example of a type of short. In my case, I'm essentially shorting the ignition switch. You can short a switch, short a battery, short a bulb, short a relay, yada yada yada - it doesn't have to be directly across a power source to be a short. Semantics.