Quote History Originally Posted By zercool:
All good info. I'll do some more digging around. I'm not in a hurry, just debating the options for adding a GMRS into the truck next to the 2m/70cm. I could probably just as easily split the power with a Y and I'm over-complicating this.
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For a simple Y split, you can do a step-down butt splice to join them together, and just fuse on the other side of the splice so both equipments are protected by the same fuse, assuming they would take a similar rating fuse.
The main advantage of a Rigrunner or similar is if you have a lot of gear you need to connect and fuse, since running inline fuse blocks everywhere is a massive pain in the ass. Having it centralized and using common and cheap ATO/ATC fuses makes management much easier when dealing with that much powered equipment.