Custom power distribution

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by FrankJ

That is really building wiring philosophy or for situations where you don't know what the downstream loads are going to be. The assumption there is the machine designer will design his equipment to handle the over current. Even there I have downsized breakers to match the equipment where I specified over size wiring because of the voltage drop. In machinery where you know the current demands, good practice is to size the fuses for the load. Cars are a good example of this.

A little late now, but you can buy fuse blocks so you can individually fuse the circuits. ATC style fuse blocks can be had for cheap. Cross the Road recomends strongly that their motor controller have circuit protection.

Something a friend from 193 and I have been tinkering with is putting together parts lists for smaller custom robots: Yesterday we were doing the power distribution parts so why not share...

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They will take the FRC fuses (up to 30A, recall this is small) and are pretty low cost.