Bringing it all together?

asinz · Mar 9, 2008

What do you guys use to bring everything together before the battery. I know you don't just connect everything directly to the battery do you? From the front I have nav light, trolling motor, and 12 volt access. adapter. and I will have rear troller, nav light, etc..

Thanks

Waterwings · Mar 9, 2008

The few items I have onboard all go directly to the battery, but everything has an in-line fuse before it gets to the battery.

Battery 1: front tm
Battery 2: rear tm, bilge pump, depth finder

asinz · Mar 9, 2008

Good idea, how do I know what size fuse(s)?

Waterwings · Mar 9, 2008

What are you hooking up?

asinz · Mar 9, 2008

Waterwings said:
What are you hooking up?

From the front, 30# troller, nav light, and a 12 volt accessory adapter. Rear will be 50# troller, nav light, bilge pump (maybe).

redbug · Mar 9, 2008

All my stuff goes through a fuse panel with a few exceptions.
All my nav. and courtesy lights, livewell fill recuirt and pump out pumps and my electronics go to a panel my bilge pumps (2) go straight to the battery through a fuse and switch.
you can do it either way just be sure that the wire you are running to a sub panel is a heavy gauge wire to handle the load

Wayne

Waterwings · Mar 9, 2008

A fuse panel is a good way to go, and as redbug stated make sure the wiring is good enough to handle the load. If you're adding new equipment (out of the box) it should state in the instructions what size in-fuse to use for each particular piece of gear.

asinz · Mar 9, 2008

Thanks for the input, this site is great.

ACarbone624 · Mar 9, 2008

All of my fuses are in-line and all the wires go directly to the battery. Its not real neat looking but it gets the job done.

Waterwings · Mar 9, 2008

Here you go (this is before I added the depth finder).

sccamper · Mar 9, 2008

I run everything into a fuse block except TM. It runs to a self reset circuit breaker.

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