Re: TRAILERS --

From: Darrell Ramsell (daram@comcast.net)
Date: Sat Mar 04 2006 - 10:18:27 PST


Out of curiosity does anyone make an adaptor that connects a military plug
to a civilian one?

Darrell

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sonny Heath" <
sonny@defuniak.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 4:57 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] TRAILERS --

> mine has circuit breakers.
>
> Sonny
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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>>
>> ----- 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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