Fuses, Breakers, and Basic Safety in your Solar System

How to protect your low voltage solar system from overheating and self-ignition. Basic rules how to protect your circuits and devices. I will also show what fuses and measures I will take to build the remote system in our mountain hut.

More Information about what and where I bought stuff: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQH4hk9dhaWqRFSgds7AkTFCHRbQWMgmn-9U2_DJUv8PY1xJL4fJ-H143BnqjHESTDjuRh9jEWIVbcg/pub

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:16 Generic rules how and where to use fuses
02:10 Fuseboxes to protect your circuits and devices
02:50 DC Breakers
03:50 How I want to protect my 12V solar system for 100 Ampere
07:50 How to protect your charge controller and what fuse to put between the controller and the battery (external fuse interrupting rating)
09:10 Cable diameters and overheating
10:05 Why switches are really important and you should use more of them
11:10 Summary