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Installing a switch panel to eliminate my birds nest
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<blockquote data-quote="Douglasdzaster" data-source="post: 494089" data-attributes="member: 27803"><p>Thanks for the sharing your wisdom. I saw a young man jump starting a diesel pickup and as soon as he connected the cables it sounded like dynamite going off. Luckily he too had his head turned and was in front of his house so he ran in and managed to clean up. I just knew we were going to have to call 911. It scared me so bad ever since I’ve tried to do any wiring correctly to the best of my knowledge. I’m redoing a couple of things I did when I first got the boat while I’m doing the new stuff because of what I’ve learned from everyone in this thread. Including replacing some 14 awg wire I used because I had a spool handy. It’s not tinned copper and all the connections are sealed correctly but im afraid what if just one connection fails. Then I have copper corrosion and won’t know it until it’s to late. All my wires are covered with loom with good quality zip ties every so often . Especially at the end of the loom where I had to start another piece. I will be inspecting all he wire more often like I do the motor which I was doing a spark test on and the tester arched to the lower cowl and that 40hp knocked me back a few step. Needless to say another lesson learned about electrical and doing everything by myself isn’t always safe.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Douglasdzaster, post: 494089, member: 27803"] Thanks for the sharing your wisdom. I saw a young man jump starting a diesel pickup and as soon as he connected the cables it sounded like dynamite going off. Luckily he too had his head turned and was in front of his house so he ran in and managed to clean up. I just knew we were going to have to call 911. It scared me so bad ever since I’ve tried to do any wiring correctly to the best of my knowledge. I’m redoing a couple of things I did when I first got the boat while I’m doing the new stuff because of what I’ve learned from everyone in this thread. Including replacing some 14 awg wire I used because I had a spool handy. It’s not tinned copper and all the connections are sealed correctly but im afraid what if just one connection fails. Then I have copper corrosion and won’t know it until it’s to late. All my wires are covered with loom with good quality zip ties every so often . Especially at the end of the loom where I had to start another piece. I will be inspecting all he wire more often like I do the motor which I was doing a spark test on and the tester arched to the lower cowl and that 40hp knocked me back a few step. Needless to say another lesson learned about electrical and doing everything by myself isn’t always safe. [/QUOTE]
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