Cleaning up wireing.

[pikefisherman]

Is their a device for marine wiring to tie trolling motor, fish finder and boat wiring all together then run a ground and a positive from their to battery?
If I remove battery for charging I would like to unhook two wires not the whole mess.

 

[sschefer]

Re: Cleaning up wireing.

Yes, they're called buss bars. If you wanted to add fuses you can go with a BlueSea fuse box that has a built in buss bars and the positive side is fused. You feed the buss bars with a single positive and negative lead resuling in one wire at each terminal of the battery.

 

[Triton II]

Re: Cleaning up wireing.

It's a great idea to run just the ground and +ve cables from the battery to a busbar and distribute all the boat's power needs from it. However, while you're at it, why not fit a charging plug to the battery so you can charge it in the boat?

 

[reddogg]

Re: Cleaning up wireing.

I got a fuse box with + and - busses with fuses. Works great, main power runs from the batts, thru a rotary cutoff switch to the box and everything is fed from there. Keeps the wiring neat and clean and easy to trace if need be.

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[denyalmartin]

Re: Cleaning up wireing.

Here i sharing best information about this. You can buy pre-molded conduit or cable channels at any major electrical supply house. These are mounted alone the wall at a low lever and conceal the wiring, you can also run them on the floor and use protective hard-rubber, anti-trip ramps in traffic areas.

 

[bruceb58]

Re: Cleaning up wireing.

You typically never use a busbar(not "buss" bar) for positive unless the breaker that feeds the bus bar is sized to break with the minimum current allowed on any one wire. Typically you have a negative busbar, a large breaker that feeds a fuse box with smaller breakers(or fuses) distributing positive to smaller wires going to each load. The large breaker that feeds the fuse box is sized for the wire that goes to the fusebox from the battery and is loacted close to the battery.

 

[pikefisherman]

Re: Cleaning up wireing.

Thanks for the great information, would a marina be the place to start looking for this or maby auto parts store?

 

[bruceb58]

Re: Cleaning up wireing.

I would go here and pick out something you like and the do a search for online retailers that carry it.

http://bluesea.com/