Glenn,

Boat US has been selling Blue Seas Breakers at a considerable discount ~$25,
or you might fuse and add an on/off.

Why so high an amperage? We use Harkens electric winches also but I don't
think our breakers are more than 50-75 amp.

Bryan

"Glenn Ashmore" wrote in message
...
I did too. Only mine are all T-1s and all are installed already. :-(

Hopefully replacing them will not be much of a hassle. I hate wrassling
with anything bigger than #2.

Steve wrote:
I have been using the Blue Seas Panel mount hi amp breakers for anchor
windlass and on the cabling between my battery banks. Total of 4.

I'm very happy with all of the Blue Sea Sytems products. I also use
their Hi
Amp inline fuses and holders.

BTW. They seem to stay on top of their quality control. I just recieved
a
recall notice on their T-1 circuit breakers (not the style I have).





--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com

According to the catalog a B44 needs 100 amps. OTOH, the wattage is
rated at 600 which would indicate a somewhat lower amperage draw. It
may be to handle the starting surge but breakers like this are designed
to take 3 or 4 times the trip load for a second or two.

Bryan B wrote:
Glenn,

Boat US has been selling Blue Seas Breakers at a considerable discount ~$25,
or you might fuse and add an on/off.

Why so high an amperage? We use Harkens electric winches also but I don't
think our breakers are more than 50-75 amp.

Bryan

"Glenn Ashmore" wrote in message
...

I did too. Only mine are all T-1s and all are installed already. :-(

Hopefully replacing them will not be much of a hassle. I hate wrassling
with anything bigger than #2.

Steve wrote:

I have been using the Blue Seas Panel mount hi amp breakers for anchor
windlass and on the cabling between my battery banks. Total of 4.

I'm very happy with all of the Blue Sea Sytems products. I also use

their Hi

Amp inline fuses and holders.

BTW. They seem to stay on top of their quality control. I just recieved

a

recall notice on their T-1 circuit breakers (not the style I have).





--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com






--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com

12 volt? That might be why I thought it seemed high.

"Glenn Ashmore" wrote in message
...
According to the catalog a B44 needs 100 amps. OTOH, the wattage is
rated at 600 which would indicate a somewhat lower amperage draw. It
may be to handle the starting surge but breakers like this are designed
to take 3 or 4 times the trip load for a second or two.

Bryan B wrote:
Glenn,

Boat US has been selling Blue Seas Breakers at a considerable discount
~$25,
or you might fuse and add an on/off.

Why so high an amperage? We use Harkens electric winches also but I
don't
think our breakers are more than 50-75 amp.

Bryan

"Glenn Ashmore" wrote in message
...

I did too. Only mine are all T-1s and all are installed already. :-(

Hopefully replacing them will not be much of a hassle. I hate wrassling
with anything bigger than #2.

Steve wrote:

I have been using the Blue Seas Panel mount hi amp breakers for anchor
windlass and on the cabling between my battery banks. Total of 4.

I'm very happy with all of the Blue Sea Sytems products. I also use

their Hi

Amp inline fuses and holders.

BTW. They seem to stay on top of their quality control. I just recieved

a

recall notice on their T-1 circuit breakers (not the style I have).





--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com






--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com

Glenn Ashmore wrote in message ...

I thought I had all my high amp wiring done but there was this brand new
Harken 44 electric winch on eBay that just snuck up and picked my
pocket. Now I need to run more 1/0 and add another breaker. I was
looking for a spot to mount a Blue sea 100A surface mount when one of my
son's friends showed me a 100 amp breaker he was about to put on his
humongous car sterio. This thing looks exactly like the Blue Sea except
it has gold plated terminals rather than nickel. It is intended to
mount under the hood next to the battery so it is fully sealed. It also
sells for $11.00 as opposed to $45 for the Blue Sea.

Is this an example of the "marine markup" syndrome or is there something
special about "marine" breakers?

Sounds too good to be true but not impossible either. I think Blue Sea
make a good product. Prior to them, the 100A breakers were all around
$100+. Have a product name for this car stereo breaker?

Evan Gatehouse

Evan Gatehouse wrote:

Sounds too good to be true but not impossible either. I think Blue Sea
make a good product. Prior to them, the 100A breakers were all around
$100+. Have a product name for this car stereo breaker?

Evan Gatehouse

It is labeled "Fusion" but I think it is a generic Chinese unit. They
are sold at most of the high end car sterio places under different names
but the case is very similar to the Blue Sea except that it has a test
trip button. I played around with it and one of the Blue Seas that I
took out for the recall this afternoon. Wired them to a pair of L16s
and some heater elements and measured the current with my old trusty
Crompton Tong-Test. They both blew on about 105 amps after 1 minute for
the Fusion and 2 for the Blue Sea. Can't say how it does with an
inductive load surge as I don't want to risk burning up a brand new
windlass motor. :-)

--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com

Glenn,
My Pro Boatbuilderr had an article about circuit breakers this month.
Might be worth a look see....

Matt

"Glenn Ashmore" wrote in message
...
I thought I had all my high amp wiring done but there was this brand new
Harken 44 electric winch on eBay that just snuck up and picked my
pocket. Now I need to run more 1/0 and add another breaker. I was
looking for a spot to mount a Blue sea 100A surface mount when one of my
son's friends showed me a 100 amp breaker he was about to put on his
humongous car sterio. This thing looks exactly like the Blue Sea except
it has gold plated terminals rather than nickel. It is intended to
mount under the hood next to the battery so it is fully sealed. It also
sells for $11.00 as opposed to $45 for the Blue Sea.