Its bad practice to totalise your maximum load across a number of paralleled
contacts of lesser individual rating. As one of the contacts starts to get
old and degrades (or degrades for reasons other than age, or is just a bad
contact) the other contact(s) become instantly overloaded, resulting in
progressive failure of both.
One way around this is to keep the loads/circuits split to different groups
of consumers AFTER passing through the multipin connector; this doesn`t
really involve any substantial increase in weight of wiring.
Duncan mcFadyean
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul & Liz Atkinson <paulliz@cix.co.uk>
Date: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 9:27 AM
Subject: electrics
>I will soon need to run a cable through the firewall to my
>bus/fuse block. Has anyone come across or used a connector
>at the firewall for this purpose capable of taking 20 amp or
>so. I could get away with less but want to allow for
>addition of a landing light later, and possibly a wing
>leveller. I have wondered about using 2 cables for this
>through a mate n lock connector which is good for 13 amp
>only. I would appreciate any comments on either approach.
>
>Thanks
>
>Paul Atkinson
>
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