On 29 December 2013 05:34, David VanHorn <microbrix@gmail.com> wrote:

> Corrosion problems can pop up when you are passing current through areas
> where it wasn't intended to go.   My gear takes hot and ground directly
> from the battery, with fuses in both lines.


Pros & cons, as ever.
A fuse in the ground lead means that the whole piece of equipment may float
to Battery + if the ground fuse blows and the battery fuse doesn't. Sizing
the ground fuse larger than the battery fuse by a factor of 2 or so, or
making the ground fuse 'slower blow' than the battery fuse may be useful.
Or not :-). Best of all, perhaps, a double poile interrupter that isolates
bot leads during a fault.



     Russell
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