# wiring gauges

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**Created:** [January 14, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wiring-gauges/41844 "2008-01-14T20:53:35Z")\
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OK, I realize if you know nothing of wiring this is confusing. Use any source from your fusebox that’s a switched circuit you want. You can do this because whatever you are powering will only draw as much as it needs (unless there is a short). The 10 amps rated part is just what your “add a circuit” piece can handle due to wire thickness. Your gauge probably won’t even draw an amps worth of current. So if you really want to be anal, put like a 5 amp fuse in the “add a circuit” slot.

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