What ga wire do I need ?
I currently have a WFCO 45 amp converter. I have never been happy with it. I have a voltmeter that tells me it is almost always at 13.6 volts. It never drops below that and in 8 years I have only se...
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It just got WEIRD.
I went to take the cables off the battery to switch the converters and found the 6 GA runs the whole length of the run and in the last 3 feet, they wirenutted the 6 GA to a 3' piece of 10 GA.
My fuse block, at the battery has two 30 amp fuses and is wired in all 10 GA.
Is this 3' length of 10 GA going to mess me up ? What does that do to my reading of the ampacity chart ?
Do I calculate using the smallest GA wire in the run or doesn't that short of a 10 GA run matter ?
I went to take the cables off the battery to switch the converters and found the 6 GA runs the whole length of the run and in the last 3 feet, they wirenutted the 6 GA to a 3' piece of 10 GA.
My fuse block, at the battery has two 30 amp fuses and is wired in all 10 GA.
Is this 3' length of 10 GA going to mess me up ? What does that do to my reading of the ampacity chart ?
Do I calculate using the smallest GA wire in the run or doesn't that short of a 10 GA run matter ?
