Yea, I forgot the part where I put the whole thing inside a section of fiberglass cross-country ski pole. That should contain the shrapnel, and I shrink-wrap the fiberglass to the main conductor, which hopefully keeps it from contacting ground.
Fiberglass ski poles can be had at thrift stores for $1, but they usually make you take the skis with them. :-) Jan On 2014-09-08, at 13:33, Peter Gabrielsson wrote: > Ah, an incendiary device! It seems to me replacing the burnt out car might > cost more than the fuses. > > > On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Jan Steinman via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Lloyd Wayne Reece via EV <[email protected]> > > > > I have purchased a fuse for an EV in the making and now I need a fuse > > block that I can use to attach the fuse and the wiring to. > > Expensive little suckers, aren't they? > > Having looked at fuses and circuit breakers in the EV range, I've decided on > constructing a fusible link. Go two sizes smaller than your main conductor, > put a lug on one end to attach to the battery, and do a soldered butt-splice > to your main conductor, covered with a few layers of heat shrink -- a fuse > for 1/100th the price! > > I decided on this approach because my batteries will be in three strings, and > you need protection for each string, lest the main conductor connecting your > strings together gets shorted in an accident or something. I did not want to > pay for three high-current fuses and holders. > > :::: He was a very inferior farmer when he first began, and he is now fast > rising from affluence to poverty. -- Mark Twain > :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op :::: > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > > > > -- > www.electric-lemon.com Jan Steinman EcoReality Co-op, http://www.EcoReality.org 2152 Fulford-Ganges Road Salt Spring Island, BC V8K 1Z7 CANADA +1 250.653.2024 _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
