REFLECTOR: Battery contactor hot potato

[Wayne]

12 v coil and 24 v system?
Wayne
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex" <alex157 at pwhome.com>
To: <reflector at awpi.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 7:18 PM
Subject: REFLECTOR: Battery contactor hot potato


> Dear fellow Velocitarians,
> I have been getting to the wiring, and to do testing ect, I had one of my
> battery contactors energized so I could get power to my bus- was not using
> any power for the most part- just needed to see if my strobes, and other
> things functioned for a few seconds, but after about 30 minutes of being 
> on
> with no load, I went to disconnect, and the solenoid was quite hot- too 
> hot
> to hold for more than about 5 seconds- BTW- I am not accidentally using a
> momentary solenoid- it is a continuous type- but the coil must be using a
> good amount of  power to get that hot I am thinking- is this a normal
> condition or is there something wrong with my unit?
>
> Alex
>
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