On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 00:24:28 -0400, "Buck Frobisher"
wrote:

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"Stay calm. Be brave. Wait for the signs."

Frank Johansen
Aurora, Ontario

"Frank Ciuca" a écrit dans le message de
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Speaking of fuses, let me tell you I was not able to find something big
enough. I live in Windsor, so I always shop in the detroit area. Well,
anyway, I bought a 36 lb thrust minn kota, which draws 36 amps. Well,
good luck trying to find a fuse holder that big, short of those
expensive circuit breakers you see at boat places. None of the boat
places or the auto places (autozone, canadian tire, murrays) carries
fuses that high in amperage. Radio shack did carry some 60 amps, but
nothing those to be used with a bread board or a similar electric setup,
not on a boat.

Blue Sea Systems sells high-amperage fuses - up to 400 amps, or more.
Of course, they don't fit the 1/4" x 1-1/4" fuseholders....


As for the trolling motor connecting to the battery. Couple of options,
one time i cut the spade lugs off and used those inline crimp connectors
to hook it to the longer 6 gage wire to go to the battery, then smeared
that liquid electric tape all over my crimp connection. On another
boat, we setup a cheap "disconnect" box in the back of the boat, on the
plywood. At a boat place in Detroit I found cheap insulated studs
(imagine a T, where the horizontal bar is made of plastic with a hole
running through on each side for fasteners, and the center of the T, a
threaded rod, for your connections), mounted those to the plywood at the
back of the boat and used that to connect the battery, trolling motor,
as well as the lights.


sounds like a Blue Sea Systems "Power Post" (Although I wouldn't call
them "Cheap" - but you could always fabricate your own from threaded
rod and scrap plastic.)

See http://www.bluesea.com/index.htm



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