[DeTomaso] Just whe I thought it was safe to go back inthe water...

[Larry - Ohio Time Corp]

Hi Al,

What was being done is that there was a single wire power source that was
split into two loads (fans). The two fuses are not in parallel so it will
work fine as long as the load from each fan does not overload the single
power wire. I think he put in two 30 amp fuses, so possible max load on the
single feed wire could be 60 amps. I bit high for me.

Larry - Cleveland



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Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 12:00 PM
To: MikeLDrew at aol.com
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Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Just whe I thought it was safe to go back inthe
water...

Mike,

 From what I remember, one can't parallel fuses to increase the amp 
rating; i.e., due to "skin" effect, you can't put 20 amps thru (2) 10 
amp fuses wired in parallel .
They are either the correct rating for the amp load, or they are not . 
S O Bill?
Don't ask me why deTomaso chose to wire that way.
Al
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MikeLDrew at aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 7/7/07 21 33 53, chrisvkimball at msn.com writes:
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>>However, why would both fuses be blown (which is what I found)?  Shouldn't
>>it only have blown the fuse to which the piggy-backed fans were connected?

>>This makes me think maybe the other fuse was already blown and I didn't
know
>>it, and that's why I had an overheating problem.
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>>>>Coould be, although presumably you would have *looked* before buying a 
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>third fan. :>)
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>If you look at the wiring diagrams, and/or inspect the back of the fusebox,
I 
>believe that you will see that fuses 11 and 12 (where fan power comes from)

>are actually connected together for some strange reason.   So, the two
fuses 
>share the load between all the components which are on what you would think
are 
>separate circuits.   (Bill Taylor, please confirm or deny).
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>Presuming this is indeed the case, then by dramatically overloading the 
>circuit, you could have blown both fuses at the same time.
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>Yes?   No?   Maybe?
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>Mike
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