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Re: How to wire unrealistically well?

Don't forget that copper is heavy. The weight of #12 or #14 wire is not insignificant.

All that neat, right angle turn wiring looks nice, but the hypotenuse of a triangle is shorter than the two sides.

We had a panel with a number of victors one year and wired it all neat and tidy, with a loop so that the panel could be swung down to work on. We needed to lose some weight, though, and ended up cutting about half a pound out of it all without much trouble by re-routing many of the wires.

Layout is important. If the flow from the battery to the main breaker to the PDB to the motor controllers is short, things will be much easier.
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