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

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Re: [Electric Boats] melted some wires

How much is your motor drawing at full speed?

Nick Stoika
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--- On Fri, 7/2/10, Ned Farinholt <nedfarinholt@comcast.net> wrote:

From: Ned Farinholt <nedfarinholt@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [Electric Boats] melted some wires
To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, July 2, 2010, 2:02 PM

James,
I have had good luck with http://www.bestboat wire.com.

Best wishes,

Ned

On Jul 1, 2010, at 12:24 PM, james wrote:

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