phragle
Charter Member
Ok, who is going to be the first to tell me "Rob's a fuking idiot" ?? go ahead, feel free, I deserve it.
So before boyne I put 280 k planes and pumps on the boat. Wired them all up and thought "I should fuse these since they are running 10 gauge straight off the battery switch" So I run an inline 30 amp blade fuse to the first pump then daisychain the second pump. While I bleeding them it pops the fuse. Not good I think, so I redo all the wiring with brand new stuff instead of wire that was kicking around the garage and replace the fuse with a 40 amp. they bleed fine, but halfway to charlevoix we blow the fuse and lose tabs.
After I get home, Jimbo (mobilemercman) tells me each pump is supposed to have a big merc 90 amp fuse. A single 40 amp fuse for both tabs just isnt going to do it.
I dig around in the garage and find 1 merc fuse, look them up online and they arent cheap. So I think "breakers" search the interwebz for a couple days nd find trick waterproof resettable 100 amp breakers so I order 2.
Forever goes by, today I find breakers in the mailbox. I climb in the bilge, go to unhook the main + from the pumps and guess what....
Both pumps have the damn merc fuses in place already. All I had to do was cut my cheesy (no offense 3B) little fuse holder out, crimp on an end and tighten them down.
My great make it better idea to fix something that wasnt broken cost me 4 freaking weeks.... for a fix that took less then 10 minutes.
So before boyne I put 280 k planes and pumps on the boat. Wired them all up and thought "I should fuse these since they are running 10 gauge straight off the battery switch" So I run an inline 30 amp blade fuse to the first pump then daisychain the second pump. While I bleeding them it pops the fuse. Not good I think, so I redo all the wiring with brand new stuff instead of wire that was kicking around the garage and replace the fuse with a 40 amp. they bleed fine, but halfway to charlevoix we blow the fuse and lose tabs.
After I get home, Jimbo (mobilemercman) tells me each pump is supposed to have a big merc 90 amp fuse. A single 40 amp fuse for both tabs just isnt going to do it.
I dig around in the garage and find 1 merc fuse, look them up online and they arent cheap. So I think "breakers" search the interwebz for a couple days nd find trick waterproof resettable 100 amp breakers so I order 2.
Forever goes by, today I find breakers in the mailbox. I climb in the bilge, go to unhook the main + from the pumps and guess what....
Both pumps have the damn merc fuses in place already. All I had to do was cut my cheesy (no offense 3B) little fuse holder out, crimp on an end and tighten them down.
My great make it better idea to fix something that wasnt broken cost me 4 freaking weeks.... for a fix that took less then 10 minutes.
