[C320-list] Battery Charger Wire Size

[Dick Walker]

I suggest you put the start battery on #1 and the two batteries on #2. Easy to remember. 



Cheers

Dick Walker


On Aug 11, 2012, at 8:36 PM, "Welch, Myron D" <myron-welch at uiowa.edu> wrote:

> I am about to begin installation of a dedicated start battery and parallel my two 4Ds as the house battery. 
> 
> I will be changing and installing several new cables and have a question about the wire running from the charger to the house battery. I have a 1995 model with a Xantrex 20 amp charger mounted on the forward bulkhead of the port locker. It has a #10 wires to the battery which I believe is considerably undersized. I believe Catalina changed this wire size on later models. For those of you with newer boats, what size wire is used?
> 
> Also, there were no fuses from the charger to the battery. I have now added MRBF fuses. What size fuse should I use?
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Myron Welch
> Wind Instrument, #238
> Iowa City, Iowa
> Edward C. Grace Memorial Harbor
> Elk Rapids, Michigan
> 
> Sent from my iPad
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