Bill; The heat is produced by the current running through the resistance in the wires/connections.You can increase the size of the wire or increase the number of wires to decrease the resistance. Cleaning up and tightening connections helps a lot too. If you have a digital voltmeter measure the voltage drop across the terminal while it is drawing current. Then clean up the terminal and remeasure. This will show if you made any progress. If still no luck you might think about adding some relays to control the current. Drive Safely & Good Luck Ken Lewis<Kernersville,NC>86 VW crewcab;60 T-5 Coupe On Sat, 17 Apr 1999 09:22:35 -0700 Davidson <wdavidson@THEGRID.NET> writes: >Okay. I found my 50 amp A/C fuse and relays. >But the wires get so hot that I can only hold the large red one for >about a >second before it is too painful. Nothing looks fried, but these hot >wires do >not seem right to me. From a quick glance at the archives it seems I >am not >the only one with these hot A/C wires. I think I also remember some >posts >that report that fires have started here. The one solution that I >found >there suggested replacing the wire connectors on the theory that a >small >amount of corrosion inside the connectors would cause this heating of >the >wires. Any other suggestions? >Thanks >Bill >90 Westy Syncro > ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] |
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