From: Sonny Heath (sonny@defuniak.com)
Date: Sat Mar 04 2006 - 04:57:16 PST
mine has circuit breakers.
Sonny
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From: "Arthur Bloom" <m35prod@optonline.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] TRAILERS --
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> 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 --
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> 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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