Inline Fuse Question
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Silver Member Username: KaerfplSpencerport, NY USA Post Number: 721 Registered: Jun-06 | Just curious but would anything bad happen to the amplifier if your inline fuse was 20 amps over or short of the total amps on your amplifier? Ex. Amps fuses add up to 180 but inline fuse is 200. |
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Platinum Member Username: Chaunb3400Huntsville, Alabama U.S. Post Number: 13162 Registered: Jul-05 | u will be fine |
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Gold Member Username: Nd4spd18Northwest PA Post Number: 4101 Registered: Jul-06 | Inline fuse is based on the size of the wire not the amplifier. Use the table on this page: http://www.bcae1.com/wire.htm |
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Silver Member Username: Wylie_coyotePost Number: 117 Registered: Apr-07 | The fuse is there to protect your battery from a discharge after say a crash or something. It's not going to over-supply your amp or anything. But be careful. If your power cable isn't the right gaugu then you might end up melting it. Like M.S. says, use his chart and you should be fine. |
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Silver Member Username: KaerfplSpencerport, NY USA Post Number: 749 Registered: Jun-06 | Ok, so I bought one of those 200A Circuit Breaker Fuses from SE and the thing wont even accept 0gauge which was rather disappointing. Took my handy dandy drill and tried to make the terminal wider to accept my wire but the whole thing shattered into pieces, lol. Smart move that was. Since it was destroyed I opened it up to find that all it was, was two pieces of cheap metal that would connect/detach. Some quality that was. Kinda glad it broke... Anyone know of a nice fuse holder that will accept 0gauge wire that isn't an ANL? |
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Silver Member Username: MmaudioconceptsMurray, KY Post Number: 316 Registered: Jan-07 | you could have trimmed the 0guage to fit |
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Gold Member Username: Nd4spd18Northwest PA Post Number: 4213 Registered: Jul-06 | Use an ANL fuse holder they are designed for large gauge wire. |
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Silver Member Username: KaerfplSpencerport, NY USA Post Number: 755 Registered: Jun-06 | "you could have trimmed the 0guage to fit" the 0gauge was no where close to fitting in the terminal... |
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Silver Member Username: Sinful_systems7015 INCH WANG... Post Number: 922 Registered: Nov-06 | ^^^"you could have trimmed the 0guage to fit" Than whats the point of thicker cable..... JMO |
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Silver Member Username: KaerfplSpencerport, NY USA Post Number: 760 Registered: Jun-06 | ^^^exactly! |
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Silver Member Username: Sinful_systems7015 INCH WANG... Post Number: 939 Registered: Nov-06 |  |
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Silver Member Username: KaerfplSpencerport, NY USA Post Number: 761 Registered: Jun-06 | Hey Sinful, your almost at Gold Member!  |
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Silver Member Username: Sinful_systems7015 INCH WANG... Post Number: 942 Registered: Nov-06 | Yeah but that doesn't matter to me, I just try to help whenever I can..... |
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Silver Member Username: KaerfplSpencerport, NY USA Post Number: 764 Registered: Jun-06 | O... Well i'll just say congrats now since I prob wont be on to when you hit it! RANDOM PIC:  |
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Silver Member Username: Sinful_systems7015 INCH WANG... Post Number: 950 Registered: Nov-06 | Random Pic....  |
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Silver Member Username: MmaudioconceptsMurray, KY Post Number: 317 Registered: Jan-07 | when you trim the wire down on the last half of an inch it doesnt matter. the transfer of power will not suffer. People do it all the time.. |
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Gold Member Username: Th3pwn3rPost Number:... Post Number: 6047 Registered: Jul-06 | That quad stacked DD is one of my favorite Photoshopped pictures.  |
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Silver Member Username: Sinful_systems7015 INCH WANG... Post Number: 957 Registered: Nov-06 | Thanks for the positive comment on the pic I posted!!!!!!!!! dBoiz wrote... "when you trim the wire down on the last half of an inch it doesnt matter. the transfer of power will not suffer. People do it all the time.." - it does matter because the wire trimmed will end where it is trimmed as well as the voltage going through it... Just do it right and it will be better... If the transfer power didn't suffer than there is no point of upgrading the wire to a thicker guage, plus the thinner section of wire will not be able to handle the current of the rest of the wire creating a weak spot in your wiring, not to mention that doing that will speed up the corrosion process by having constant arcing at the terminals where the wire was trimmed. But you can do it however you want, I will do it right..... "people do it all the time" - doesn't mean it is correct or best way of doing it!!!! |
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