It’s been posted every Sunday morning for the last year, but you need to subscribe to it separately. You can choose to only receive the daily newsletter Monday thru Saturday, or just the weekly Sunday digest, or both.
I taught electronics for 25 years. If one of my students had turned in a project with that much flux residue on it, it would have been an immediate fail and required rework.
More so today, I find most all items fused in one way or another in an RV. We can still do one better than the manufacturer. We can add in-line fuses where low current items are on heavy copper runs to add additional protection if these low current items should fail in a high current condition and we can replace higher current fuses where circuits draw less current than the builder installed. In most cases, the building is protecting the wiring and the fuse is based on the wire gauge of the circuit. However, if an LED lighting circuit draws all of 3 amps, there is no need for a 15-amp fuse protecting that circuit. A 5-amp fuse in the fuse panel would be adequate to protect the wiring and is more likely to open if an LED lamp driver of a single light failed internally. Think of all the items in a modern RV that use semiconductors. Just about everything!
When I built my Class B RV, I chose to install 12V Round sockets (Cigarette Lighter) with removable USB Chargers. And this way was ready for future type of USB or other types of chargers. I actually use USB-A and USB-C chargers.
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It’s been posted every Sunday morning for the last year, but you need to subscribe to it separately. You can choose to only receive the daily newsletter Monday thru Saturday, or just the weekly Sunday digest, or both.
I taught electronics for 25 years. If one of my students had turned in a project with that much flux residue on it, it would have been an immediate fail and required rework.
Exactly!!!
More so today, I find most all items fused in one way or another in an RV. We can still do one better than the manufacturer. We can add in-line fuses where low current items are on heavy copper runs to add additional protection if these low current items should fail in a high current condition and we can replace higher current fuses where circuits draw less current than the builder installed. In most cases, the building is protecting the wiring and the fuse is based on the wire gauge of the circuit. However, if an LED lighting circuit draws all of 3 amps, there is no need for a 15-amp fuse protecting that circuit. A 5-amp fuse in the fuse panel would be adequate to protect the wiring and is more likely to open if an LED lamp driver of a single light failed internally. Think of all the items in a modern RV that use semiconductors. Just about everything!
When I built my Class B RV, I chose to install 12V Round sockets (Cigarette Lighter) with removable USB Chargers. And this way was ready for future type of USB or other types of chargers. I actually use USB-A and USB-C chargers.
That’s a good plan…