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  1. bruceb58

    Courtesy Lights Bayliner 2655

    With something like this, you are likely just better off replacing it with an LED fixture that covers your existing holes. I see a few in this search...
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    Can someone fix the homemade outdrive pressure tester links?

    I was thinking about making a home made tester at one time. I just bit the bullet and bought one of the better ones and it isn't really that expensive. I bought it straight from Stevens. I put in a company name just in case. I also bought the vacuum tester. $112...
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    Electric power steering

    What is the voltage at idle and what is it when at higher RPM? Is it stiff when the car is not moving but better if the RPM is higher and the car is also not moving? Reason I ask is because many cars with electric power steering use speed sensors to determine power steering output. Another...
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    2021 NFL/NCAAF News and Nonsense

    UCLA effed this up. The players went to Sea World and some Navy thing. Of course if this was for a major bowl, this would have all been covered up and they would have played anyway. You can't tell me there aren't a ton of cases in all teams.
  5. bruceb58

    2021/22 - CFB

    I think Pitt missing their first two QBs is a way bigger handicap.
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    Blue Sea Add a Battery

    It was the factory option listed on the "window sticker".
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    Blue Sea Add a Battery

    Yeah...that's why Cobalt didn't install fuses. Have you ever even used an ACR? There are many ACRs out there that say nothing about putting in fuses. Out of curiosity, what do you think you are actually protecting with the fuses? Do you have fuses on your battery to starter cable? Adding...
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    Blue Sea Add a Battery

    Just following your lead.
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    2021/22 - CFB

    And they are doing pretty well!
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    Blue Sea Add a Battery

    Over 30 years as an EE including electric vehicles and automotive electronics...used to work for GM let me say, I had a feeling you were an electrician...doesn't surprise me one bit what you are saying. Had to fix more than one electrician's goof ups. And yes, the thread was hijacked back on...
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    Blue Sea Add a Battery

    And you missed the point entirely. The point is if you have a fault and you have a short circuit in the wiring feeding the lamp within that cord plugged into the outlet, even if it has a 16awg wire feeding it, it will still blow the 20A or 15A circuit breaker without the rest of the wiring melting.
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    2021/22 - CFB

    Looks like Tennessee got screwed there.
  13. bruceb58

    2021/22 - CFB

    They do it for other reasons. Any other sport besides men's football and basketball wouldn't exist if they only did it to make money.
  14. bruceb58

    Blue Sea Add a Battery

    No it doesn't...thankfully a 16 AWG wire can tolerate 22A before it fails. It's also why the ground wire of 240V and other circuits doesn't have to be the same size as the conductors. It just has to be big enough to not melt before the circuit breaker trips. BTW...EE here...your background?
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    Blue Sea Add a Battery

    LOL....then what happens when your lamp with 16AWG wire into a 20A circuit? BTW, I never said you wire your house with a wire that is below the code required wire size for a certain amp circuit. I am talking about the unfused loads you plug into outlets. Another BTW, you increase wire sizes...
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    Blue Sea Add a Battery

    And that's why I always make branch circuits able to handle the current of a dead short. For example, with a 15A circuit, a 16 AWG wire can handle 22A. You wouldn't use that size wire for the main circuit since you would really want to use 14AWG because of voltage drops if you were pulling 15A...
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    Blue Sea Add a Battery

    Volvo uses a circuit breaker from a wire that attaches to the starter solenoid. They do that instead of the Merc fuse that was done awhile ago. I don't believe my new Mercruiser does that fuse anymore. In fact, on my Mercruiser, they wire up the ignition and fuel injection straight from the...
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    2021/22 - CFB

    The sad thing is, most schools actually lose money sending their schools to these smaller bowls so it's not really a money maker for the schools. That's why you don't hear many schools chiming in to replace some of these covid cancellations.
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    Blue Sea Add a Battery

    That's actually not how it works. For example, a home 120V circuit's amperage is determined by the wire size. When you wire up a home circuit you could have a 1A device attached to it or a 20A device attached to it. You don't know. Typically, if the device attached to the circuit needs it's own...
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    Blue Sea Add a Battery

    You really think that is for the starter current? It's not. That is for the power going to the rest of the boat's power...not for the starter.
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