Wondered if anyone might know this - been looking at the electrical manual but can't see much.

Got a break in my small connection to the starter motor, looking at a cut out and splice some new wire in, but wondering what sort of draw that has. Only got 10amp wire to hand, but this looks like a fair bit beefier than that.

Thanks

Grue,

according to the wiring diagram the starter solenoid has a 40 Amps fuse in series on my 3.2

Its safe to assume less than that.

But if you splice in a wire that can handle 40 Amps for 20 seconds you should be fine

Good Luck

Paul

Grue wrote:

Wondered if anyone might know this - been looking at the electrical manual but can't see much.

Got a break in my small connection to the starter motor, looking at a cut out and splice some new wire in, but wondering what sort of draw that has. Only got 10amp wire to hand, but this looks like a fair bit beefier than that.

Thanks

According to the wiring diagram, the starter trigger wire is 4.0mm, so considerably more current than a 10 Amp cable will take.

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10 amp wire is a meaningless statement.


Let's say you have 40 amp & are using 10awg 5.26mm² wire. 1 metre will have a percentage loss of 0.965% at 25°C at 13.85 volts or 1.113% at 12.0 volts.

Double the length, double the loss.

Or double the amps, double the loss.

Or double the cross sectional area, halve the loss.


Typically a 3% maximum loss is acceptable for less for critical items. Add up compounding losses, like more wire length within a component like a fridge (0.17 volts for my fridge at 3.8 amps)

& the calculated length of wire is the total length of both + & - sections of wire. Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!

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