jehines3 said:
Jimmy, I'm curious about your bad feeling about the blue seas marine panels installed. Yes, they are relatively cheap, but they are tinned bus and plastic, not much to go wrong, but want to know what I should look for. As for the Connectors, I have better wire and went tinned copper and used Ideal Tinned lugs. Electric Utilities (including mine) specificy this arrangement in outdoor electrical substations for controls.
As for the wing nuts that is just being lazy on my part, but I do torque tightnen them with a wrench.
Liquid electrical tape is just crap in a jar in my opinion. I use vulcanizing tape where appropriate. Covering anything on a bus makes any furture work a PITA. Especially on tinned bus, if you try and clean the tape goo the tinned layer is usually compromised.
My batteries connectors are shrink coated. I'll be adding split loom in the furture after I put my charger back and wire it back in. My Cathodic system is being removed and makes the port panel useless now. jh
fuse blocks...personally,i don't like them,i prefer and use the ancor in line water proof fuse holders,you're gonna need 3 1 for each bilge pump float and 1 for the high water alarm...the liquid electric tape,the crap in a can,i use it to keep the screws in place-it will seal them and keep them from vibrating loose....the wire hold dows...try not to use those stick on style,the glue will fail...i like the style that you atach with a screw,then slide the zip tie through...
there's more than one way to skin a cat,everyone's gonna do things a slightly different way...personally,i stick to what adheres to abyc codes...there's professional shops out there that do terrible work,trust me,i've seen some hack jobs like you can't believe,jobs you guys are doing look good,looks like you guys are taking your time and trying to do the right thing...gotta love that :wink: :wink:
when are you guys coming down for a job ??? gotta new 31 contender coming in for a full rig up-electronics,fishin' equipment,dedicated battery system,the whole deal...with you 2,i could probably get this done in a day...so..let's go...get done what you're doing,we got work to do....