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Old 08-25-2015, 08:13 PM
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Pat, as usual, great posts. That MSD thread was good!

OK, so if it has a circuit breaker on the board that would explain why they want this to go directly to the battery thru no fuses or circuit breakers of any kind. So why are you running yours thru the protected side of the 50A CB? Why do we need to run thru anything at all? Is there any risk in doing what MSD says to do? I like safety, so I am more than willing to run this fusible link if it is a better installation. I just need to know how long to make the link?

It is not that I need to know what will fry the fusible link wire at all. I just need to know what to use for this application. So then my question is still this...per your chart, is Rick using an 18 gage (40 amp) fusible link to protect his 12 gage Red POS MSD wire?

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