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Old 08-31-2016, 11:00 PM   #113 (permalink)
pletby
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Wow checked out some Civic forums and saw a spectrum of Amp draw but one guy was saying he's measured over 200 amp draw on his. So I'm thinking on a nasty cold night I don't want the fuse to blow so 300 could be a good number, now I need to figure out how much 20' of 2 gauge welding cable can handle safely and make sure it's more.

All of the tables so far I've found indicate that 2 gauge cable is not enough for 20' at 300 amps, but that's for continuous duty at a small voltage drop. I'm only going to see a spike up to less that and then run much much lower steady state.
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