quattro digest, Vol 1 #5347 - 18 msgs

[Cody]

Waytek Wire (waytekwire.com) sells a number of high amp circuilt breakers that would work great. They have suitable breakers for voltages ranging from 14v to 30v, and amperages from 10 to 200. I would look at part number 46540 (40 amp with a mounting bracket and auto reset) or 46376 (40 amp with bracket manual reset). They also have ones that reset only when voltage has been removed. Even have covers to go over the terminals (sold separately).

I HIGHLY suggest to anybody doing electrical work on their cars to order a free Waytek catalog, their website stinks, but the catalog is absolutely brilliant. No affiliation just an extremely satisfied customer. They have great prices and tons of really great products.

-Cody Forbes
2x '86 5ktq
'87 5ktq - Writing this e-mail while taking a break from the EFI conversion, using lots of Waytek products ;-)
'88 80 4cyl - Next up for EFT, 'cuz I _HATE_ CIS.


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>Message: 18
>Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 22:32:29 -0400
>From: Eric <eric_audi.ql at mindspring.com>
>To: quattro at audifans.com
>Subject: Battery cable short protection question
>
>As part of my turbo swap on my 4kq I moved the battery to the trunk.  I
>took care to route the cable where it could not rub on any metal edges,
>but I am still paranoid about getting a short some day way down the
>road.  A short would be worse since the cable runs through the passenger
>compartment.
>
>My question is this.  Has anyone found a good way to "fuse" the battery
>cable.  I know some OEMs use fusible links on the battery cables, but I
>have not found anything like that at a parts store.  I looked to
>industrial options and a large enough fuse block and fuse gets a little
>expensive.  I also thought about using a short section of smaller wire
>near the battery, but the connection between the different sizes might
>be tricky.
>
>Anyone have ideas?  I am using size 1 cable and I would like to put this
>weak link (fuse) right near the battery.
>
>Thanks for the help!
>
>
>--
>Eric Sanborn
>'85 4kq - 225k+ (work in progress)
>'8X VW Race Rabbit - EFI
>'89 Honda CRX Si - 175k (Wife's car)
>'88 Chevy Suburban - 190k (Our luxury SUV with bench seats and full vinyl interior)
>
>http://www.mindspring.com/~robinsanborn/4000/