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Re: voltage drop
Posted to Technical Discussion Forum on 4/22/2008

Mark -

Rules of thumb --- back "in the day" when cars mostly had lighting circuits, 3% used to be the maximum acceptable voltage drop -- so .36 volts.

In fact most WIRE in vehicles used to be SIZED to achieve a 3% drop OR LESS.

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