RK
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| posted on 18/1/09 at 02:45 PM |
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gauge wiring
My garage is too cold to work in, so I am now installed in the basement doing electrickery. We might call this "making hay while the sun is not
shining". In fact, it is snowing again. It does that around here. A little too often.
My plan is to take all the ground terminals from the switches and gauges, run wires from each, solder or crimp them all together and have a 10 gauge
wire coming off which will go to the chassis. There are at least 20 terminals, but I haven't actually counted yet.
Any problem with this?
Thank you as usual!
[Edited on 18/1/09 by RK]
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BenB
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| posted on 18/1/09 at 04:47 PM |
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No problem with doing it that way. In fact it's nicer doing it that way than daisy-chaining the earths as with a daisy system the current in the
wires will gradually increase.
In your system each wire only has to carry the current pulled by the thing it is supplying (other than the 10 gauge wire).
10 gauge wire can carry 60A (accourding to this linky) so it shouldn't be a problem!!
Can't see a dash pulling that much juice....
EXCEPT... I wouldn't solder or crimp the wires together and then attach to the earth cable. If you have to change on of the wires you'll
have to re-solder or re-crimp the whole thing  Must better to use a totem-pole style earth connector block, attach cable eyes to the wires and
individually connect them to the earthing block...
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BenB
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| posted on 18/1/09 at 04:48 PM |
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You could even use a domestic DIY earth block. Personally I'm not so keen on these on cars but hey... enough people use chocolate-block type
connectors...
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