You can find leftover amptrap fuses on ebay for quite cheap. I'd rather trust those than some skipole/solder contraption. There's a reason those fuses have 1/8inch thick shells and are filled with sand.
Anyway, good luck. On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Jan Steinman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- www.electric-lemon.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140908/28aaa4ff/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)
