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Old 08-19-2013, 02:27 PM
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solenoid or not

I currently have a sealed Cole hersee ignition blower switch that has 14 g wire for the ignition circuit leading to the coil. This wire is feeding a 1.5 ohm resistor,the coil for electronic ign ,fuel pump and another 1 ohm resistor leading to a fresh water cooling pump . I think this is a lot for that little wire to handle even though it is less than a 5ft run, do you think it would be advisable to use the the wire to activate a continuious duty solenoid to power all this stuff or am I ok
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Old 08-19-2013, 02:42 PM
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Excluding the blower load you're looking at 6 amps on the very short 14 gauge wire. According to my handy wire gauge calculator, allowing for a maximum 3% voltage drop your current setup is good for 26 amps.

I wouldn't load it beyond 15 amps though.
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