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290 Coastal Electrical to Windlass
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290 Coastal Electrical to Windlass
Finally getting around to replacing it, was going to go with the RC6-8. But as I started looking into it, I think my problem might be undersized cables to the windlass. It all looks original OEM, but cable is undersized per windlass manual. I only have AWG 4 cables. And when you add up the distance from the batter to switch, switch to windlass, windlass to neg terminal, neg terminal back to battery, its around 60'. the freedom 500 and the RC6-8 would need a min AWG 2 cable for that distance.
Anyone else had this issue? Or what size cable do you have on the 290 coastal to the windlass?
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Re: 290 Coastal Electrical to Windlass
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Re: 290 Coastal Electrical to Windlass
It's also possible that the current demands of the windlass increased as it aged.... more friction from the bearings, gearing, etc.
In general though I think that there are areas where Wellcraft was too conservative with wiring size. Thankfully they did a good job of protecting the wiring everywhere with the right breaker/fuse sizes. I'm tracking a problem currently where current stops flowing to the house circuits from the engines when houe batteries are depleated. Current working theory is that wiring and the self-reset breaker is undersized for the charge rate that AGM batteries are able to accept.
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