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oil pan 4 · 09-21-15, 10:45 AM

Do you have a scrap yard near by?
If so this is where I get almost all my new wire.
Over the last year or 2 I have collected hundreds of feet of 4ga wire, bought for about 1/4 the price of MSRP.

I can see great application for the flir when building new equipment.
Here is my 240VAC powered solar panel in a box. It mimics the output voltage of a "12 volt solar panel" for charging a battery via solar charge controller.
I was running it hard testing to find any deficiencies. Found running the 25 amp bridge rectifier at anything over 12 amps made it get a little hotter than what I would like to see and at the full 25 amps it was really cooking at over 250'F.
Then found the fuse holder was cooking at 330'F at 25 amps.

So I went with different fuse holder, double the existing bridge rectifier and heat sink setup.

09-21-15, 10:45 AM	#9
oil pan 4 Land owner Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: NM Posts: 1,026 Thanks: 12 Thanked 127 Times in 107 Posts	Do you have a scrap yard near by? If so this is where I get almost all my new wire. Over the last year or 2 I have collected hundreds of feet of 4ga wire, bought for about 1/4 the price of MSRP. I can see great application for the flir when building new equipment. Here is my 240VAC powered solar panel in a box. It mimics the output voltage of a "12 volt solar panel" for charging a battery via solar charge controller. I was running it hard testing to find any deficiencies. Found running the 25 amp bridge rectifier at anything over 12 amps made it get a little hotter than what I would like to see and at the full 25 amps it was really cooking at over 250'F. Then found the fuse holder was cooking at 330'F at 25 amps. So I went with different fuse holder, double the existing bridge rectifier and heat sink setup.