T-Pain Is On A Boat: Re: [Electric Boats] melted some wires

Friday, July 2, 2010

Re: [Electric Boats] melted some wires

I second the genuine dealz source in spite of their dumb name. They have a wire size calculator on their site.

James, there is a silver lining to this: your boat will go even faster or farther with proper sized wire.

Denny

www.wolfEboats.com

----- Original Message -----

From: Mike

To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 12:56 PM

Subject: Re: [Electric Boats] melted some wires

James:

I've always found Genuine Dealz to have good prices for marine grade wire. That's what I used on board. Remember BIGGER is better when it comes to wiring on an electric boat.

Capt. Mike

http://biankablog.blogspot.com

--- On Thu, 7/1/10, james <james4078@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: james <james4078@yahoo.com>
Subject: [Electric Boats] melted some wires
To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, July 1, 2010, 4:24 PM

Has anyone besides me melted some wiring due to too much dc current?
I'm looking for a good source for the correct wiring and being able to buy it in bulk. Any ideas?
I'm running two etek motors and 6 12volt deep cycle batteries on a 16' three passenger speed boat. It gets up on plane but to much current melted some wires and they caught fire. It was small and quickly been extinguished (don't under estimate the importance of a handy fire extinguisher). looking for some leads....thanks