Timeline for Do I need to fuse batteries in parallel?
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| Dec 25, 2018 at 18:46 | comment | added | ThreePhaseEel | @Maple -- or better yet, indicating automotive fuses are a thing -- see the Littelfuse 297 and 299 series for examples | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 0:29 | comment | added | Maple | Here's an idea - put LEDs across the fuses. | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 0:21 | comment | added | Peter Bennett | @Maple: possibly - but if a fuse disconnected the bad battery, I might not have noticed the fault for some time - perhaps until a celll in the "good" battery failed. As it was, I was able to notice the problem, then disconnect the bad battery (and be prepared to replace it). | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 0:07 | comment | added | Maple | "I have had a couple of cases where one cell in one of the paralleled batteries shorted" And that is exactly the reason to have fuses there in the first place. With the fuse you could have charged the remaining cells and keep battery fully operational, although at lesser capacity. | |
| Aug 28, 2018 at 19:30 | history | answered | Peter Bennett | CC BY-SA 4.0 |