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Old 10-09-2011, 11:31 AM
Brian Carlton Brian Carlton is offline
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Originally Posted by sjh View Post
Ergo, the advice. Thirty (30) plus amps at 12 volts is 360+ watts. Take four (4) 100 watt light bulbs (about 10% light & 90% heat) and turn them on. Sense all the heat they put out. Concentrate all that heat in a wire, in a car, buried under a dash, etc.
The heat is only generated in a light bulb due to the very thin wire and the resulting very high temperature due to the current in the wire.

A 60W bulb has only 1/2 amp, and yet it generates significant heat.

A fuse accepts 30A while remaining below the temperature threshold required to melt it.

Two completely different concepts.
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