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Above the battery.

or on the other side

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It's next to the battery. It's like Cessna messes with you by sticking just one fuse out there exposed to weather and the rest inside the cockpit.

I walked out to a scrap airframe that's sitting in Oklahoma and found a clock sitting in its floorboard. One mounting ear broken off and it didn't tick when connected to a 12v battery, but you can have it if you need it.

I think the C-172 we had had a multiple day (I think it was 12) wind up clock in the panel. No electricity needed .

I installed this [aircraftspruce.com]. Comes with G-meter, volt meter, chronometer and OAT with an optional probe.

It keeps renters from killing the Hobbs after taxiing away from the FBO.

Really.

I mean it. This was a BIG problem for a lot of FBOs when they started using Hobbs meters (post-WWII) to figure both cost and maintenance on rentals. It's not that a lot of people were actually pulling the fuses, but if the Hobbs was being used "for trade" (that is, as the meter to determine what a customer would pay), the numbers had to be "legally defensible." That meant the Hobbs had to be completely out of the control of the customer when in use. Thus the fuse on the firewall.