From: Arthur Bloom (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Fri Mar 03 2006 - 20:45:02 PST
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] TRAILERS --
At 9:58 AM -0700 3/3/06, SGM PANTANO wrote:
>Hey...wake up.. There is no such thing as a 24 volt or a 12 volt trailer..
>The light receptacles in the Military tail lights could care less what bulb
>is in there..
But the wiring could. 24 volt wires could be
sized smaller, try to run the same wattage bulb
at 12 volts and you could fry your wires. Check
the wire harness first!
Twelve gauge copper wire has an ampacity of 41 in open air (single insulated
conductor) and an ampacity of 23 in a harness. For 14 gauge wire, the
ratings are 32 amps and 17 amps, respectively. It would take a lot of lamps
to reach those limits. In addition, there are fuses which are designed to
fry before the wires do.
Arthur P. Bloom
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