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HOW-TO-GUIDE: Wiring your tin boat...Where to begin?
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<blockquote data-quote="HOUSE" data-source="post: 248409" data-attributes="member: 4466"><p>Doh! silly oversight... I should have caught that. I can run an extra #6gauge wire to the back pretty easily later on. My switch is only rated for 15amps, but my devices are only drawing about 5-10amps (Bow light: 1amp?, Stern light: 1amp?, LED light: 1amp, Fishfinder: 225mA (=.225amps, right?), & a possible bilge pump: unknown amps until I buy it, but I'm guessing 1-5amps). </p><p></p><p>Is there going to be an issue if I put a 15amp circuit breaker on the switch and then have individual 2-5amp fuses for each device built into the switch? ...I guess I don't understand what happens if you "over" protect something with too much of a fuse. If something shorted out, it would theoretically blow the 2amp device fuse first and then possibly trip the 15amp circuit breaker, right? So no harm having both?</p><p></p><p>-House (I'm starting to have that "Chinese Algebra headache" again, grrr).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HOUSE, post: 248409, member: 4466"] Doh! silly oversight... I should have caught that. I can run an extra #6gauge wire to the back pretty easily later on. My switch is only rated for 15amps, but my devices are only drawing about 5-10amps (Bow light: 1amp?, Stern light: 1amp?, LED light: 1amp, Fishfinder: 225mA (=.225amps, right?), & a possible bilge pump: unknown amps until I buy it, but I'm guessing 1-5amps). Is there going to be an issue if I put a 15amp circuit breaker on the switch and then have individual 2-5amp fuses for each device built into the switch? ...I guess I don't understand what happens if you "over" protect something with too much of a fuse. If something shorted out, it would theoretically blow the 2amp device fuse first and then possibly trip the 15amp circuit breaker, right? So no harm having both? -House (I'm starting to have that "Chinese Algebra headache" again, grrr). [/QUOTE]
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