Yup, sure enough, my curiousity got the better of me and I didn't reassemble
the outlet correctly and it was shorting out. lol
Thanks.
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: sf-bay-tac-bounces@No-Spam [mailto:sf-bay-tac-bounces@No-Spam]On
Behalf Of P T Chambers
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 12:23 PM
To: The Astronomy Connection
Subject: Re: [TAC] Keep blowing fuses...how to hook up deep cycle?
Hi
If you dont have anything plugged into the outlet box when you connect,
you have a short somewhere. Your battery can weld metal so this is not
a good situation.
If you have something hooked up, it is drawing more than 10 amps. If so,
what is it??
You can answer off list if you want. And we will keep the conversation
away from the batteryphobics on this list.
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Phil Chambers [ptchamb-at-svpal.org] (S.F. Bay Area - Calif. USA)
On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Chris wrote:
> I know batteries are a touchy topic here, but this is more "HOW"? ;)
>
> Bought a Sears Deep Cycle Battery, and a two outlet box that's designed to
> be hooked up to an under the dash power supply apparantly. I also bought
a
> set of 10Amp copper clamps that I soldered onto the outlets wire (along w/
a
> 10A inline fuse that came with the outlet box).
>
> Obviously I know little about this...but I keep blowing fuses when I clamp
> onto the battery terminals. I thought it's a simple plug N play. Nope.
Do
> I need a relay or something?
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Chris
>
>
>
Received on Thu Oct 6 11:59:00 2005