In a message dated 1/22/2005 10:26:22 AM Central Standard Time, daveleonard@cox.net writes:

<< And *that's* why you fuse the alt wire (at the battery end). A short in
> the alt will draw the full amps available from the battery & turn the
> wire into a fuse if you don't.
>
> Charlie
>
>

Actually, I am hoping that is what will happen.  I have an 18G fusible link
going to my alternator.  Just a piece of 18G wire with fireproof insulation
around it.

Dave Leonard

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Could you install a diode in the line so that  no energy from the battery could be be used by the alternator, along with a fuse?


Lynn E. Hanover