welcome duke ....
what instructions are you talking about ?
hmm now all things are to be concidered , depends on what range you have the multimeter on ....sounds like you have the range selection on amps ....not volts
ill explain
if you had the the range on volts i would expect the reading to be 11.5 to 12.0 volts ...with the ignition switch turned off ....but if you had the ignition switch turned on it might read .05 which could be the voltage drop between the battery and the power rail that that fuse supplies ....but i would expect that number to be higher than .05 any how ....
if it was on amps thats about the figure i would expect ,,,in as much as the load (current) to supply the flasher unit and maybe something else that has be added to your system (like relays for the headlights) perhaps ? ...especially as this fuse goes to the load shed relay as well .
did you have the headlights switch turned on at all ..and the ignition switch turned off ?
the fuse getting hot is hard to explain with only 0.05 amps measured ...with the ignition off ,,,,but if the ignition is turned on could be about right because there is some slight voltage drop on the way through the electrics to that point .....and a little current might still flow through the meter to supply stuff in addition to the normal supply route .
in any case if it is getting hot ....either the wrong size fuse has been installed ...or there is some load device connected ....do you have heated grips or something like an accessory added to the bike ?
all in all with the information supplied too hard to guess ....but some of the reasons might be from what i have suggested ....others may reply with different ideas also ,,,this is just what comes to mind straight away
so we need more information really
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