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Re: Victor connect to 30 A instead of 40 A

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Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur View Post
This is not quite right.

When choosing a breaker, choose it by the wire gauge attached to that breaker as breakers and fuses only protect the wiring.

Now to go further, you choose your wire gauge and drive circuit(victor, talon, spike, etc.) by the load (motor, solenoid, etc.) on the wire.
What's "not quite right"? I don't know about you, but I choose my wire based on the motor and its associated load, and select a breaker current limit accordingly. You really do it the other way around?

With that logic I feel like this would be a real conversation:

Student: "This CIM will give us all the torque we need to run our shooter!"
Mentor: "Yeah but we already cut and crimped this awesome 18 gauge wire, so pick a different motor compatible with it"
Student: "But we won't get enough torque from anything pulling under 20 amps"
Mentor: "I guess your CIM solution was destined to fail then"
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