![]() ![]() To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. The silicone grease is displaced when the fuse is inserted, but then forms a gas tight connection around the connection to prevent corrosion from forming and having the connection go bad.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. If you do use fuses in panels or accessory boards, coat the ends of the fuses and the holders themselves with silicone grease. Use only fuses that are in panels and or are of the bolt on circuit breaker style to avoid such future issues. It is this possible poor or corroded connection is exactly the reason to get rid of all in line fuse holders. ![]() ![]() As a result, under the conditions of the heavy current draw of the motor, the confined voltage drop in the area of loose or corroded connection caused a toaster heating effect and melted out the rest of the bad connection. The reason that the wire and the fuse holder melted, is that over time one or both connections on the fuse holder either became loose or slightly corroded. All of the other motors draw in the range of 40 amps or less when running wide open. It is only the Terrova motor that requires the 60 amp breaker. The 40 amp breaker size is fine for all of the Minnkota trolling motors made before the Terrova. If you get the former a lot with a bad 40 amp fuse, you shouldn’t be surprised because, as the video, I shared. Overall, what a broken fuse looks like may mirror the aftermath of a lightning strike or a clean cut on a metal strip. ![]() So, there is really no reason to manually set it and it is nice to have the sealed unit that is a thermal reset. A Jcase fuse will also have an alloy line, which will also look visibly cut, but there may be less discoloration. This circuit breaker should almost never trip. I personally would not install the manually resettable circuit breaker. With the circuit breaker bolted directly to your battery, you are protecting 100% of your trolling motor circuit from any potential shorts that could cause a melted conductor or worse. Put a ring terminal on the end of your trolling motor battery + wire that fits the end of the circuit breaker and bolt it to the circuit breaker.īolt the other end of the circuit breaker to the brass strip.įinally, bolt the brass strip to the + terminal of your trolling motor battery. If you pick up a circuit breaker from a marine store, you will likely have the conductive strap packaged with the circuit breaker.)ģ. (You can obtain these circuit breakers from any auto parts supply store. Our Whirlpool GJC3034R Cooktop needs to be replaced so while doing the research I realized that it is rated 40A (here is the excerpt from the manual): A 4-wire or 3-wire, single phase, 240 volt, 60 Hz., AC only electrical supply is required on a separate, 40-amp circuit, fused on both sides of the line. Make one hole the size that fits on the circuit breaker bolt and make the other hole the size that fits the + terminal of your trolling motor battery. Drill a hole in each end of the piece of brass. Obtain a piece of conductive metal - like brass of about 1 1/2 inches long and a 1/2 inch wide. Properly splice and insulate the newly cut wire with either butt splices, or a double lineman's wrap and solder and tape or heat shrink tubing.Ģ. Cut the inline fuse and melted connector out of the trolling motor wire. ![]()
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