"...It needs to be in UL listed conduit, and treated just like you'd treat the service entrance wiring for your home."
I'm running the HV wires through the ex heater channels which end right behind the little radio speaker down in the footwell. I used a big PVC pipe cap that fit perfectly on the stub of 3" (or so) tubing. I was able to fit 3 pieces 1/2" NM watertite conduit onto the pipe cap, those run up into the front trunk where the batteries are. I did get a little uncomfortable with the breaker mounted there with it's (well heat-shrinked) terminals mere millimeters from the inner fender sheet metal. On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Lee Hart <[email protected]> wrote: > David "Battery Boy" Hawkins wrote: > >> Since you never, ever, never, want the traction wiring in the cabin with >> you, the breaker is located under the hood, and for the "Oh SH$@" >> emergency cable, I use a heavy duty PTO cable (power take off). >> > > I don't see traction wiring in the cabin as inherently dangerous; it just > needs to be packaged correctly. A breaker in the cabin needs to be in a UL > listed electrical box, just like you'd do for the circuit breakers for your > house wiring. They are "inside the cabin", but thoroughly protected. > > Same for the wiring to this box. It needs to be in UL listed conduit, and > treated just like you'd treat the service entrance wiring for your home. > > -- > The storage battery is one of those peculiar things which appeals to > the imagination, and no more perfect thing could be desired by stock > swindlers than that very selfsame thing. Just as soon as a man gets > working on the secondary battery it brings out his latent capacity for > lying. -- Thomas A. Edison > > -- > Lee A. Hart, > http://www.sunrise-ev.com/**LeesEVs.htm<http://www.sunrise-ev.com/LeesEVs.htm> > ______________________________**_________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: > http://www.evdl.org/help/**index.html#usub<http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub> > http://lists.evdl.org/**listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org<http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org> > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/* > *group/NEDRA <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA>) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130629/043dd7b7/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
