Rookie Solar System needs advice on Fuse Breaker

[sunny1972]

Hi

I have a fuse sizing question for an EDECOA 12v 3500/7500 inverter that I have connected to a 60A AmpInvt MTTP Solar Charge Controller, my batteries are 2x 750Ah LiFePo4 and I have 1.5 KWh Solar Array connected.

I have seen many installations with a fuse breaker on the positive cable to the inverter and thought, hmmm - I haven't done that....so I figured, let's do this as good practice.

My stumbling block is the inverter has the following DC cable supplied; it's a 16mm2×2 pair, I am thrown off by the fact that it says "pair". On a recent fuse sizing chart I saw that a 60A fuse should be fine for 16mm2 cable, but the pair threw me. The cable does indeed have two cables connected to a terminal, so I am guessing that each is 16mm2.

I would really appreciate your help on this, thanks for reading.

Sunny

 

[sunny1972]

I took a photo to help visualise what I posted above:

 

[sunny1972]

and one more showing the full distance from Inverter to MTTP, what baffled me also was the terminal wouldn't fit into the MTTP solar terminal, so I cut the cable and fitted it without the terminal, using electrical tape to tidy up the cable, ideally, I'd like one cable instead of two, but I don't know if this means getting a 32mm2 cable as these cables are said to be 16mm2 (pair):