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Trophyseeker50
Posted 4/16/2014 4:36 PM (#707203 - in reply to #703316)
Subject: Re: 24 volt trolling motor





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Location: WI		One of the reasons for putting the breaker on the battery is to protect the wire at the rated voltage. Your battery has very high potential (+800amps) in most cases. Let's say the wires become pinched somehow or rub on a metal part of the hull. If you had a short and the breaker is on the trolling motor side the wires would burn until they are free. I have seen pictures of a boat that had a short to the hull and it actually burned a hole through the aluminum.

Think off it like your home. Your breakers are on the line(power) side of the circuit thus protecting all of the circuit including the wire.

Edited by Trophyseeker50 4/16/2014 4:39 PM

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