On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 2:08 PM Neil N <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote: > I think my suggestion may be unsafe! > > Potential Amp load on that length of 1.0 wire might too high? > > Please correct me if I'm wrong but back feeding B+ through the 1.0 > black/red 50 wire in junction box would take a long path back through > 1.0 wire to fuse panel, then ignition switch 50 then out to starter > via 4.0 then 6.0 wires. > You cheated and looked at the diagram! (I should have). It's only 20A for a fraction of a second. If enough gets through to operate the solenoid I think it would be ok even on the skinny wire. Continuous ampacity at 30C is 19 amps for 1.0 mm^2 wire, so it's even in spec. Yrs, d |
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