| [GMCnet] Newly installed VIAIR 400C compressor [message #306710] |
Thu, 08 September 2016 11:29  |
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Others will likely chime in here, but you need to rethink your wiring. Electricity will follow the path of least resistance and will not simply send 1/3rd of the amps down each of your three small wires. All 19 amps are going to go down one of those three until it burns up. My suggestion would be to replace your three 18ga wires with one proper 10ga wire as soon as you can.
Jerry
Jerry Work
The Dovetail Joint
Fine furniture designed and hand crafted in the 1907 former Masonic Temple building in historic Kerby, OR
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Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2016 07:11:28 -0600
From: Johnny Bridges
To: gmclist@list.gmcnet.org
Subject: Re: [GMCnet] Newly installed VIAIR 400C compressor
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My Viair is run by a relay I put in, which relay is energized by the original wiring. I fused it at 30 amps, ViAir claims a 19 amp draw. I was out
of large wire, so it has three identical runs of 18GA wire to the relay.
--johnny
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'76 23' transmode Norris upfit, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
Braselton, Ga.
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