On Sun, 02 May 2004 10:30:45 +0100, Chris Newport
wrote:

On Sunday 02 May 2004 4:21 am in rec.boats.electronics Doug Dotson wrote:

Put it where it is easy to get at and the elements won't attack it.
There is no electrical reason to put it close to the battery.

BLOODY DANGEROUS ADVICE.
The fuse protects the wiring, all circuits should be fused as close as
possible to the battery to prevent the wiring burning in the event of
a short.


The fuse needs to protect the equipment and the wire.

The best way to do it is to run a main supply cable from the battery
with a breaker near the battery to protect that cable. That cable
should go directly to a fuse / breaker panel that will be near your
equipment. That panel with the proper size fuse / breakers should feed
individual equipment.

The cable and breaker near the battery from the battery should be
large enough to handle all the electronics. The individual wires from
the panel to the equipment will be smaller as will the fuses there.

Sometimes inline fuses are employed from the distribution panel but it
is better to have the fuse on the distribution panel. Then the wire to
the individual equipment is protected as well as the equipment.

If you are only running one piece of equipment then unfortunately the
proper place for that fuse is by the battery.

Regards
Gary