Phone wire is not consistent in terms of rating or operation.
Having built a 10KW with 1200 cells... I would use proper fuse wire in it. It is cheap to buy and at least you know what the rating is rather than a haphazard experiment.
I would also fuse top and bottom and not just the top. Cheers Steve On 02/01/2019 21:55, Robert Bruninga via EV wrote:
Best thing would be to just test them and be sure. But don't test with a 3" piece of the wire from end of battery to the other end, because that is not the same as testing a 3/4" piece. You will need a 3" piece of heavy wire and then just the 3/4" of the "fuse" wire to get a valid test. But trivial to do the test. Bob -----Original Message----- From: EV <[email protected]> On Behalf Of ken via EV Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2019 4:26 PM To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List <[email protected]> Cc: ken <[email protected]> Subject: [EVDL] fusewires for 18650 cells Thou my cells are rather close in capity, I'm still thinkng of using fuse wire as in the telsa pack . If i used the phone cable 2 pair cable that runs around houses and used 3/4 inch form cell to bus bar would my 10 amp cells be protected ? _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
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