fuse by battery necessary??

[noob with an RS 10+ year member]

hey, is it absolutely necessary to have a fuse by the battery even though i am going to use a fused distribution block at the trunk? i am going to run 1 gauge from the battery to a fused distro block in the trunk which is going to have two 4-gauge outputs to the amps. would it be stupid to not have a fuse by the battery or is it really not necessary since there will be fuses at the distro block?

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[swimfreak26 10+ year member]

Yes, it is very necessary.

 

[swaptrex 10+ year member]

a fuse holder w/ fuse is only like $10.....

 

[rideac1 10+ year member]

It IS necessary that if somehow if the wire would happen to ground itself to the body or something, before it gets to the distro. block, it would **** a mean amount of amps and burn up, and with 1g, oh man, it would prob catch fire and melt some stuff, maybe a fire. Put an inline fuse with the max amount of amps that the size of wire can hold, check it out @ the12volt.com

 

[noob with an RS 10+ year member]

kk thank for the info guys. might've been a small or dumb question but i wasn't sure and i was getting greedy with maybe saving a couple of buccs. but ditto on the inline fuse.. will do!

 

[sumone 10+ year member]

it's not really necessary...it's all about if you're willing to take the chance of having the worst-case-scenario consequence occur if you don't do it. to 99.9% including myself, that's interpreted as necessary //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[jacko 10+ year member]

i'm extremely happy that i have that fused, I've blown that fuse more than once by accidentally keeping the wire live when switching amps or something, and touching a piece of metal in the trunk with the wire I don't know what would happen without though.

 

[req 5,000+ posts]

i'm extremely happy that i have that fused, I've blown that fuse more than once by accidentally keeping the wire live when switching amps or something, and touching a piece of metal in the trunk with the wire I don't know what would happen without though.

letting it touch for 1 second and blowing the fuse is prolly not enough to melt the wire. but honestly, it dosnt matter.

the fuse(s) is absolutly the most nessicary thing(s) in your car elecrtical system aside from wire, alternator, battery, and components. if you had no fuses. i wouldtn be surprised if your car was in the shop 3 out of 4 days of the week.

if that wire overheats and melts the shielding - then the wire hits bare metal - you will MOST LIKELY start a fire OR drain your battery, or both.

fuse. if yo dont, you will die.

 

[swaptrex 10+ year member]

is it true the fuse should be no less than 10 inches from the battery and no more than 18.

 

[jacko 10+ year member]

swaptrex, it is only protecting the wire, so how ever far away the fuse is from the power source, that wire may be burned and/or start a fire. Otherwise the length doesn't matter i dont' think.

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

Long story short; you want the fuse as close to the battery as possible, because any length of wire that comes before the fuse is unprotected (and hence runs the risk of shorting out and causing a fire, etc etc).

 

[JoseMCeee 10+ year member]

also a battery that goes Ka blooey is no good. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif . That acid is no joke.

 

[n2audio 5,000+ posts]

is it true the fuse should be no less than 10 inches from the battery and no more than 18.

Technically, if you could efficively attach the fuse directly to the (+) battery post - that would be best.

The only logical recommendation is "as close to the battery as reasonably possible."

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

Technically, if you could efficively attach the fuse directly to the (+) battery post - that would be best.

RF and Knukonceptz both make fuseholders that do this, actually //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif It's a clean way of doing it.

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

RF and Knukonceptz both make fuseholders that do this, actually //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif It's a clean way of doing it.

KK does? I was browsing their site the other day and didn't notice it...just out of curiousity...have a link?

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