[RE-wrenches] DC Fusing/Breakers for Battery Circuits

[Dan Fink]

Does anyone have any elegant solutions to this? It's really time consuming
and ugly to run big parallel battery string wires *out* of the battery
enclosure to class T fuses, then back into the battery box. It looks very
ugly and DIY, and in conduit adds a few hundred to the install cost just
for labor. The Class T fuses and blocks themselves are not particularly
expensive.
I have been recommending parallel fusing on battery banks of 2x8 L16s and
over now, after a nearly tragic incident with a bad cell that shorted. The
(perfectly legal) wooden battery box made the fire much worse. A pet peeve
of mine.


Dan Fink,
Executive Director;
Otherpower
Buckville Energy Consulting
Buckville Publications LLC
NABCEP / IREC accredited Continuing Education Providers
970.672.4342
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