Wednesday, Nov 03, 2004 at 19:48
Its not so much a defect its a failure of good electrical worksmanship.
Its a simple problem with a simple fix ....
Every circuit must be protected from a short circuit and forms the basis of fusion protection. If there is a circuit, anywhere, unprotected, it needs to be brought into line.
When I run a wire from a battery I use some form of circuit "break" ...from a simple blade fuse up to high current manual reset breakers.
This is much more important when the wire is small ... and its small because its load current doesnt dictate a large wire (much less chaffing resistance because of small thickness outer sheath) and its connected to 300amp of batteries. (50 amp would fry this one)
I'm certainly not going to recommend/suggest a BT wiring mod publically as I aint no qualified sparky .....and get brushed off as a well meaning, self-appointed Bogger expert. I gave up on that ages ago !!
I can say I found an unprotected circuit going to my battery what anyone does about it is up to them ? I found it when changing my wiring to busbar.
Realistically .... with historical BT travels there is no need to panic as many would have fused by now ....? But it certainly isnt good practice to have an unprotected small diameter wire running through a wall, connected directly to 300 amp. I did mine just as a matter of practice when I found it.
Something to keep in mind and have it looked at by a qualified person at service time maybe.
E-mail Ernie (NomadUsR) .....
Regards
Anthony
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