Neat Boat Wiring
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Neat boat wiring. When you make your own wiring diagram use very large sheets of paper for clarity. Keep in mind that the longer your wiring run from the battery to switch panel is the more voltage drop youll have more about voltage drop. Prevent voltage drop by using larger cable. A single scrap computer yields enough of these for several projects plus leds switches fans heatsinks and all kinds of other potentially useful stuff my wife would affectionately term more crap.
Example of a draft wiring diagram for a simple boat. Most boats will have positive and negative busses where area wires come together. Electrical grounding systems may not seem fun but the price of overlooking them can be too high to pay. One of the handiest things ive found fow keeping wiring neat are the three and four pin plugs from surplus electronics.
Neatness counts the firstand easiestthing you can do to improve the state of your boats wiring is to make sure that your wire runs are neat organized and properly secured. Equipment coming off a switchboard or circuit panel should be straightforward to trace. Pulled the engine wiring harness out of our boat bayliner bowrider 175 and it looks like a rats nest.