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1968 Volvo project Pure Volvocity
The good news is that the car is making progress but the bad news is it won’t be done this year. At least not before SEMA. Maybe 2021?
We are done with the hard part of the sanding but still have high build primer and a few more rounds of sanding. It is looking good.
https://youtu.be/MQ4T-6HoNf8
I shipped off all the chrome on Friday. 3 big boxes are on the way to Sherm’s Plating down in Sacramento. That will take 6-8 weeks to get done.
I started to lay out some of the wiring in the trunk. I will have the battery back there and want to have some safety provisions. I fabricated 2 brackets that mount to my battery holder. One will hold the master power disconnect. The outlet from that will go to the starter solenoid and another will feed into a 250 amp circuit breaker for the alternator. I wanted to eliminate constant power that could cause a wire if shorted. Anyone have any feedback on this idea?
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1968 Volvo project Pure Volvocity
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slimjim
going back to your battery setup, I have planned to run a very similar setup to you but my circuit breaker to the alternator is considerably smaller, I think 80 amps off the top of my head. I plan to run an 8 gauge charge wire from battery -> circuit breaker -> power terminal under dash -> 150 amp alternator. I understand my 80 amp is relatively small however was under the assumption that the alternator never sends it's full charging power back to the battery. I researched my setup probably 18 months ago now and cannot cite where I learnt the majority of this, but was somewhat confident in it, and also figured it was not costly in upgrading the circuit breaker if it indeed turns out to be undersize and tripping frequently. So out of curiosity I was wondering why you went with 250amps?
Actually did my research about 4 years ago and forgot most of my thoughts behind the plan. I think My thought was the 250 circuit would stop any catastrophic issues but not have me to reset it for normal circumstances. We was planning on some sort of distribution block under the hood for front end accessories there as well as charging. This may be overkill especially since I was going to run 0 gauge wire. I do have a bunch of 6 gauge that I will likely just use that.
Is there a problem running a higher amp breaker? Maybe I could drop it down to 150 while dropping down to the 6 gauge wire.
It will be interesting to see if there is a SEMA show this year. Suppose we will find out as the summer goes by. Pretty crazy times right now.