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Originally Posted by Hacksaw
My stuff was all fused through an ARC panel. Maybe the pump did not dead short, but the feed wire melted back to the relay and the pump was toast. Never burned it down. Funny, how my junk managed to set the NHRA SS record 3 times.
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The ARC panel fuses the trigger for the relay. The main feed to the relay that powers the pump should have a circuit breaker or fuse properly sized for the wire and the load it's feeding. If the fuse is rated higher than the wire the wire burns. That's the reason I posted the wire gauge chart, size and length of the wire is important.
I have a friend with an ARC panel and it was the same deal but he didn't have a relay and still burned the wire, basically his wire became the fusible link.