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Re: what fuses to uses?
Posted to Technical Discussion Forum on 11/3/2002

Being a fan motor and having dynamic resistance you can't use Ohms law to calculate current.

This is what I do:

1) Connect the fan across a battery and measure the peak start up current flow (will by higher that the running average). Add 25% to this for yo... Login to read more.