And I think it was mentioned before but the point of the fuse or breaker is
to protect the wire, not the unit.  So figure out what the current draw is,
size the wire accordingly, and then size the breaker or fuse to keep the
wire from frying.  The point of this being to keep the smoke inside the
wire, of course, rather than in the cockpit at un inconvenient time.
There's a wire sizing chart at
http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/wiresize.html, which includes a "max fuse
size" rating.  This also takes into account different lengths of wire.
Don't forget that composite planes usually require that number to be doubled
to account for the return wire to ground....

Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama
see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
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