More than a good idea, this is REQUIRED under ABYC standards, as well as just common sense. You must have a fuse within seven inches of any connection to the positive side of a battery or DC bus (unless the wiring is protected in a sheath, in which case you can go a bit further). The fuse must be sized appropriate to the current rating of the wire it’s protecting. Note that this has nothing to do with the device that the wire is conducting current to (although the wire must be sized appropriate to provide current to that, as well).
Fred Street -- Minneapolis S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- on the hard in Bayfield, WI :^( On Feb 18, 2014, at 9:03 AM, Marek Dziedzic <dziedzi...@hotmail.com> wrote: > 1. a good idea is to use fuses directly connected to the battery post (or > very close to). This way, anything you connect “directly” to the battery, is > in fact already protected by a fuse.
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