I'm building a control cabinet for my security camera system, it's all 12 volt (Yes, I know I should have gone POE, but the cameras I had purchased were all externally 12 volt powered), so to save money I went with those and ran my relatively small house with 12 gauge wire and cat5e to power everything. On the plus side, I can drop DC wires down the wall into an Anderson connector and have 12 volt wherever I need it, no more stupid looking wall warts. All of my routers/ Internet equipment / led strips are powered directly from 12 volts out of the wall without that ac/dc hideous brick. I'm at kind of a holding point as to whether I want to use 2.1 mm barrel jacks, XT connectors, or Anderson power poles as the "outlets". APP's are great, but its a real PITA to get a good solid crimp connection on, and I absolutely abore soldering any of the XT connectors, especially in tight spaces near walls. Anyway, I digress.
The power core of the system is a used Dell server power supply capable of 72 amps at 12 volts, fed into a distribution block with much smaller fuses and circuits per camera. It's a very stable power supply, and it actually accounts for voltage drop under load, not that that load will ever be more than 15 or 20 amps.
My question is this, all of my lithium batteries use class t or equivalent fuses, but this power supply isn't capable of putting out anywhere near what lithium batteries can, so class T is way overkill, both to spec and financially.
I've been looking into MIDI and and ANL for 70a. Both seem to have decent selections of both cheap Chinese quality and nice ones. Given that I'm not familiar with any fuses other than automotive blade and heavy duty lithium, what would be your recommendation for something that is adequate, relatively cheap and easy to replace, and can preferably be purchased at a local store if it blows (I'll buy extras of course). Bonus points for keeping the fuse block small, I'm not exactly low on space, but I don't have a ton of extra real estate in that box. Anything that mounts on a DIN rail is a definite contender, the whole box is DIN setup
Any help would be greatly appreciated, even just a nudge in the right direction of a fuse type I haven't heard of yet.
Thanks guys.
The power core of the system is a used Dell server power supply capable of 72 amps at 12 volts, fed into a distribution block with much smaller fuses and circuits per camera. It's a very stable power supply, and it actually accounts for voltage drop under load, not that that load will ever be more than 15 or 20 amps.
My question is this, all of my lithium batteries use class t or equivalent fuses, but this power supply isn't capable of putting out anywhere near what lithium batteries can, so class T is way overkill, both to spec and financially.
I've been looking into MIDI and and ANL for 70a. Both seem to have decent selections of both cheap Chinese quality and nice ones. Given that I'm not familiar with any fuses other than automotive blade and heavy duty lithium, what would be your recommendation for something that is adequate, relatively cheap and easy to replace, and can preferably be purchased at a local store if it blows (I'll buy extras of course). Bonus points for keeping the fuse block small, I'm not exactly low on space, but I don't have a ton of extra real estate in that box. Anything that mounts on a DIN rail is a definite contender, the whole box is DIN setup
Any help would be greatly appreciated, even just a nudge in the right direction of a fuse type I haven't heard of yet.
Thanks guys.
