battery relocation, what AMP for circuit breaker?
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battery relocation, what AMP for circuit breaker?
i'm relocating my battery to the trunk and want to put an inline circuit breaker at the battery. what AMP should i use? SummitRacing has circuit breaker ranging from 40 amp to 150 amp.
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/BSS-CB185-100/
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/BSS-CB185-100/
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I'm using a 150A with a yellow top. I haven't had any issues for about a year now.
If you go anything lower than 125A there's a chance that you will be popping it whenever you start your car.
If you go anything lower than 125A there's a chance that you will be popping it whenever you start your car.
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I used a 180 amp circuit breaker... Looks great and performs as it should.. flawlessly!!
Tsunami 180 amp, no issues at all
http://www.sonicelectronix.com/cat_m...-breakers.html
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I would go with at least a 2 gauge minimum imho, for the battery. Thats what I ran for about two years with a pc680 grounded in the trunk. I upgraded to a higher quality cable so I decided to go 0 gauge. I weighed the difference and iirc it was 2-3 lbs between the the two sizes. That really isnt a big deal because its not effecting the balance of the car. The weight of the cable going to the trunk is distributed evenly on a low point of the chassis. Imo its much more critical to provide good clean power and ground to the battery. Your electrical system will thank you.
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I would go with at least a 2 gauge minimum imho, for the battery. Thats what I ran for about two years with a pc680 grounded in the trunk. I upgraded to a higher quality cable so I decided to go 0 gauge. I weighed the difference and iirc it was 2-3 lbs between the the two sizes. That really isnt a big deal because its not effecting the balance of the car. The weight of the cable going to the trunk is distributed evenly on a low point of the chassis. Imo its much more critical to provide good clean power and ground to the battery. Your electrical system will thank you.
I also went 0 gauge for positive cable, better safe than sorry
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I have to agree with you...
I used a 180 amp circuit breaker... Looks great and performs as it should.. flawlessly!!
Tsunami 180 amp, no issues at all
http://www.sonicelectronix.com/cat_m...-breakers.html
I used a 180 amp circuit breaker... Looks great and performs as it should.. flawlessly!!
Tsunami 180 amp, no issues at all
http://www.sonicelectronix.com/cat_m...-breakers.html
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