Converter upgrade question
Had to replace stock converter due to malfunction. On advice of this forum upgraded to a PD 4645. Started installation yesterday and noticed that wiring into converter is a 10 awg whereas broken conve...
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What you have will work. A lot of folks like to upgrade their wiring to the battery location when they upgrade their converters/chargers. If you just have the one battery then leave it like the factory installed. If you are going to start camping off the power grid then I would go all the way up to 4AWG cables and then this would handle multiple batteries being installed in the future.
Also keep in mind your large battery cables will need a protective fuse in case of catastrophe battery cable short. The factory installed fuse located near the battery terminal is usually around 35AMPs. If you add additional batteries to your setup this fuse needs to be a larger rated fuse to protect the battery cable from burning up due to a short circuit. For my four 85AH battery setup I installed a 130AMP fuse to protect my 4AWG battery cable feeding the 60AMP Inverter. The 130AMP fuse I installed is an overkill but was available to use from another project. A 70-80AMP fuse would be used if I had purchased one for this install. This fuse definitely needs to be larger than the rated output of the new installed converter unit.
Wire gauge sizes for comparisons
just my thoughts
Roy Ken
Also keep in mind your large battery cables will need a protective fuse in case of catastrophe battery cable short. The factory installed fuse located near the battery terminal is usually around 35AMPs. If you add additional batteries to your setup this fuse needs to be a larger rated fuse to protect the battery cable from burning up due to a short circuit. For my four 85AH battery setup I installed a 130AMP fuse to protect my 4AWG battery cable feeding the 60AMP Inverter. The 130AMP fuse I installed is an overkill but was available to use from another project. A 70-80AMP fuse would be used if I had purchased one for this install. This fuse definitely needs to be larger than the rated output of the new installed converter unit.
Wire gauge sizes for comparisons
just my thoughts
Roy Ken
