Excellent Video, Phil.
that
Lynx distribution box is BIIGGGG! but very good. I am kinda tempted to use one of those when I install your old batteries in my van (assuming I can lift them!)
Got a question that I have been thinking about and your video reminded me of as you have the same potential situation. Not anything to do with the video so you might want to separate to a different thead?
How can you tell if an individual
battery fuse is blown? (I mean without physically checking with a meter).
There is 12.xV on the
battery side of the fuses from the
battery. There is also 12.xV on the other side of the fuses from the other batteries. So if a
fuse blows, how do you know (as nothing actually stops working)?
If one blows, the loads will then be shared across 3 batteries instead of 4, and then on a high load, another
fuse will blow, and then another as the shared current per
battery jumps up - leaving you with 4 blown fuses and no knowledge of which one went first (maybe pointing to an issue with a specific
battery) to potentially start the chain reaction.
Not a critisism you understand, as I fully get the reason for fusing each
battery and I am also wanting to
fuse each one, but have the above situation in mind which I want to preemptively deal with.
I am thinking there must be a way using the fact the blown
fuse is open circuit, so infinite resistance, rather than basing the check on voltage differential (the usual way on a live circuit), but not sure what a good way to do this is?