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    Posted: 07 May 2014 at 8:29am
Looks like the light pink coating FR uses on and around the 12v distribution posts is Permatex Battery Protector and sealer. This looks like a good area that should be looked at occasionally. Most Pod owners probably don't even know it's there. I stumbled across it.

[edit: It's a short stop circuit breaker, not 12v distribution posts]

No, I didn't leave any fused connections outside the pod. The blade fuse holders are from local AC Delco auto store. Radio Shack only had the mini blade fuse holders.

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Fred, In in the first picture of your post dated yesterday at 5:18pm & also the first picture of them all, it appears that there is a power feed wire & a couple of other wires bolted to two studs of a circuit breaker? That is what I'm referring to.
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What you are looking at is a power distribution block. It's not a fuse. Hot (red) from batteries on one side and main feed to WFCO panel on the other. That's all factory installed and sprayed with Permatex Sealent - the pink stuff.

The only change I made were the two white and two green wires terminated with the yellow ring connectors - white (positive) to distribution block and green (ground) to existing ground screw on frame. Simplest, shortest run for adding circuits to street side (slide side) of pod.

Here's a closeup of the distribution block:

[edit: as noted, it is a short stop circuit breaker, not distribution block]
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From the angle, it looked like a circuit breaker. I was hoping to avert any problems on your end.
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Thanks. I think I will pick up a can of the Permatex Battery Sealant .

Sound like good stuff and cheap insurance.

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That is not a distribution block-  it is a circuit breaker.  On mine it is 50A.

I wouldn't have missed thatLOL
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That's interesting, Budward. When or how might that might trip and how would it be reset?

Thanks!

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Ahhh, so thanks for the pointer Bud! It does, indeed appear to be a circuit breaker similar to:


I would guess it's an automatic reset thing.

So in my install do you think it matters was side of the breaker my power leads should be?

Good catch!

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They open under an overload and self reset after a short time period, if the overload is still there they open again, and so on...

There are models that have to be manually reset- but the one FR uses in this app is self resetting.   The same breakers are often used in electric brake wiring.

http://www.cooperindustries.com/content/dam/public/bussmann/Transportation/Resources/catalog_pages/BUS_Tns_12X_Shortstop_CB.pdf
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Originally posted by fwunder


So in my install do you think it matters was side of the breaker my power leads should be?



Personally I would hook to the load side of the breaker.  That way your new wiring is protected too.
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