Connect fuse directly to battery terminal?
Can I connect a Mega style fuse directly to the battery terminal with the other end connected to the cable with a bolt? If it blows does the fuse stay in one piece? I installed new batteries and th...
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I think the switch doesn't count. When it is closed it is just more wire that then goes behind a wall off to the converter etc. So IMO you do need a battery fuse close to the pos battery post. A switch is not a fuse.
AFAIK all RVs have a "battery fuse" up by the pos battery post on the wire going back to the converter way back in the RV. (Fuse amps depends on the amps rating of the converter) Not to mention the fuse on the pos wire for the slide (30a on ours), the fuse for the pos wire for the jacks (30 amp on ours), and even the (15 amp on ours) fuse for the pos wire for the LP alarm and radio memory, that all end up on the battery pos..
You are supposed to also have a big fuse on the inverter's pos input wire from the battery, close to the battery. Size of fuse according to inverter's manual.
If you have a big fuse for the inverter, is it ok to just link all the pos wires to that? NO!!!! The idea is to use "buss" rules.
The various wires to the buss (branch wires) each have various size fuses according to the AWG of those branch wires, and the big fat wire from the buss to the battery that takes the total of all those branch wire amps, then has its own big fuse for its own fat AWG.
AFAIK all RVs have a "battery fuse" up by the pos battery post on the wire going back to the converter way back in the RV. (Fuse amps depends on the amps rating of the converter) Not to mention the fuse on the pos wire for the slide (30a on ours), the fuse for the pos wire for the jacks (30 amp on ours), and even the (15 amp on ours) fuse for the pos wire for the LP alarm and radio memory, that all end up on the battery pos..
You are supposed to also have a big fuse on the inverter's pos input wire from the battery, close to the battery. Size of fuse according to inverter's manual.
If you have a big fuse for the inverter, is it ok to just link all the pos wires to that? NO!!!! The idea is to use "buss" rules.
The various wires to the buss (branch wires) each have various size fuses according to the AWG of those branch wires, and the big fat wire from the buss to the battery that takes the total of all those branch wire amps, then has its own big fuse for its own fat AWG.
