[Icom] Icom 2000 Molex Connector

[Dick Flanagan]

At 06:28 AM 4/3/2004, you wrote:
 >Concerning the power cables used on Icom
 >and other ham radio gear, can someone
 >explain what the purpose is to have a dual
 >fused line?

The theory is if the battery's heavy ground line opens up, the entire 
vehicle electrical system will attempt to run through your radio to 
ground.  Not too bad until you try to start the vehicle and the cranking 
current smokes your cable and potentially starts a fire.

A very inexpensive piece of insurance.

73, Dick
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Dick Flanagan K7VC NV SM
E-mail: k7vc@arrl.org