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Title: Electrical hookups for captain chairs
Post by: Danny on June 22, 2007, 10:55:24 AM
 I bought two captain chairs to install.  They are Mountain Aire and have electric everything including heat seats.  My questions is what size breakers (fuses) would I need to such a hookup.  I assume they are DC.  I can't see the motor or don't have any spec information.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Danny
Title: Re: Electrical hookups for captain chairs
Post by: Eagle on June 22, 2007, 11:46:39 AM
They are DC and a 15AMP fuse one for each chair will work.
Title: Re: Electrical hookups for captain chairs
Post by: Brian Diehl on June 22, 2007, 01:00:54 PM
15amp fuses may be underated.  I have FlexSteel chairs and they will put my 10amp DC converter (peak output of 12amps) into over current shutdown when the motors hit their stops at the end of travel.  I bet they peak over 20amps.  Maybe use slow blow fuses or self-reseting circuit breakers.
Title: Re: Electrical hookups for captain chairs
Post by: DrivingMissLazy on June 22, 2007, 01:51:16 PM
I would suggest you fuse the seat heat circuit separately from the positioning motors.
Richard
Title: Re: Electrical hookups for captain chairs
Post by: JackConrad on June 22, 2007, 03:45:40 PM
Don't forget to match the wire size to the fuse size.  Larger fuse needs larger wire.  Jack
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