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Originally Posted by JhwShark
I did a re-wire from 14 pin down under a few years ago...all is good.
I've been doing typical maintenance and found that I have, at idle, aprox. 13.9 V at jump post but at the CP the three leads that come from the Jump post measure 13.4V. The wires are warm and harder than they should be...should have replaced during the re-wire I suppose.
Comments on this please: I am considering using the same wire type (12mm), since I have leftover, from the post to the CP in lieu of having 4mm wire at hand. I will run it into the cabin and then split it into three equal bundles to connect to the female connectors and plug into the CP.
Thoughts please!  |
Do you mean 12 gauge vs. 4 gauge?If so, 3 x 12 gauge wires in parallel cannot handle the same as one single 4g wire, the current capacity is defined by the cross sectional area of a bundle of wires.
4G has a surface area of approx 21 mm. 12g is only 3.3mm. So it would take approx 6 12 ga wires to carry teh same load as one 4g.