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1971LT1SWBPOSI373,
Not to hijack my own post but there is a time where I live when it is safe to drive on the ice.

Those houses you saw that fell through the ice were suffering from bad luck. Mine would have gone through too if I'd have used it the day before it got hot. Apparently what happened is the temps went way up above 40F. All the snow melted on top of the ice. Then it got windy. The wind pushed the water like during soft water season. If you fished the night before the hot weather, and your holes remained open, the water swirled around in your hole and slowly eroded the hole. The hole got bigger and bigger until it was bigger than your house. Those are the houses that fell in. My neighbor, a retired guy, went out the day they all fell in and noticed his holes were getting bigger so he just pulled his house to good ice.

Most folks that die on the ice, or under it, drive into open holes. Snowmobiles are the worst. They go too fast and out drive their headlights. Last week over da-burbs way two teenagers drove their car into an open hole. They didn't make it.

BTW, I'm going to leave the 10 ga. wire from the battery to that distribution block. I did notice everything from there is 10 ga. or less.