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Leave your inverter earth where it is, a self tapping screw won't take ANY current.
 
OK, thanks alot for your help TOM and JAY, i'll let you know how I get on when I get my car back.
 
Wire is never rated as 'x watts'. Thats just a madeup number stuck on wiring kits.

Long wires = voltage drops
voltage drops = less volts and the end of the wire
less volts = more current
more current = heat
heat = melted wires
 
Tom's right your inverter earth sounds fine, just add the case earth to somewhere close by and I reckon you'll be cool. :)

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your earthing wire should ideally be the same as your +ve. Think of it as plumbing pipes, you send 20 gallons a minute down a 5cm pipe, then only use a 2cm pipe as your drainage, you'll get a flood.

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I ran two earth wires on my PC as recommended by MP3Car.com. One from the case and one from the Motherboard...

Its worked for me so far and i suspect help reduce interference.

Daz


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Jay, thats a terrible analogy ;)

The difference between wire and pipe is 2m of 10mm pipe and 2000m of 10mm pipe flow about the same amount of water.

2m of 10 guage wire and 2000m of 10 guage wire will not take the same current.
 
it's a great analogy!
I'm really happy with it.

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It's right if you meant 5cm and 2cm as diameter of pipes...leave me out of this now :)
 
analogy's cannot be wrong, they are by nature not diretly analogoue to the subject; merely an approximation design to enhance understanding. :p

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Smee

consider your post well and truly hijacked :)

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As an approximation it fails as electricity does not behave like water. :)
 
Water flows, so does electricity ;)

Daz (chucks in a spanner and runs to hide)


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i'm not going to turn this into a popcorn moment :)

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