When you get a store bought fuse you get some testing to tell you how fast it will blow. Do you care if it takes a while to melt off? Or do you prefer the higher level of circuit protection from a fast blow? Something to consider anyway. It is not like the fuse makers are just taking us to the woodshed for a spanking. You do't want to seal it in or it will be more than just incendiary - but you probably thought of that. Putting it in a small steel enclosure might be prudent - enclosures are in the electric code FWIW.
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 4:30 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) > > -- Put this question to yourself: should I use everyone else to attain happiness, or should I help others gain happiness? *Dalai Lama * Tell me what it is you plan to do With your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver, "The summer day." To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasaed125362.html> A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. *Warren Buffet* Michael E. Ross (919) 550-2430 Land (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Google Phone (919) 631-1451 Cell (919) 513-0418 Desk [email protected] <[email protected]> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140908/c931b828/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ 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)
