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Old 08-05-2014, 08:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Gaz64 View Post
Dan,
...You'll find the ring terminal is not large enough in cross sectional area to carry the current draw required. Combined with a loose nut and/or poor crimp to the wire, and the connection overheats.
After about 1000 ERA kits that have worked fine with that eye-ring, I suspect the problem was a bad physical/electrical contact somewhere at or near the ring. For those using high-draw or high-output charging systems, I've occasionally supplied a different feed wire that bypassed the ammeter circuit - the real limiting factor.
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