[Electric Boats] Re: Batteries, A note on Service Life

 

As long as you are going to change fuse holders and selecting a quality fuse holder, why not get them up out of the battery compartment?  It's a rather harsh environment generally.

For many years I used the old fashioned glass fuses and holders in a marine environment.  Never had any problems with contacts even on the higher current fuses.  I have now gone to auto type blade fuses and they seem to perform well.  The only fuse I ever used inside the battery compartment was the 300A bolt down fuse in the main battery feed.

Depending on where you mount your battery charger, which seems to me should be outside of the battery box, having all the fuses there makes a lot of sense.  In reality I feel the fuses should have been in proper fuse holders on the charger.

John

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Posted by: John Acord <jcacord@gmail.com>

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