Couple questions for wiring bottle heater? Size wire and fuse?
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Couple questions for wiring bottle heater? Size wire and fuse?
What size wire are you guys running back from your battery to your bottle heater? Or what size is recomended? I have 10 gauge and it seems pretty damn thick. Also I bought a 30 amp fuse to put in line. Will that be enuf?
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Wire size is good, you should run a relay for the heater and not just an inline fuse. The heater relay is triggered by a 12v source which turns it on, thus completing the circuit from the relay to the ground, battery power and pressure switch.
Tony.
Tony.
Last edited by Speed Density; 01-26-2012 at 03:27 AM.
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My heater says it pulls 18 amps. And I measure my wire to be about 13ft. Going by the chart it looks like I'm pushing it with the 10ga wire. If it actually pulls 18 amps I think I will be ok. Going by this other chart I should be fine. Going off yours I'm cutting it real close. Hopefully it will be fine.
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Going off this chart I even have a little room left....
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Going off this chart I even have a little room left....