grounding wires

[bruceb58]

Re: grounding wires

Well...... I had a few thousand feet of aircraft wire sitting in my garage. It has flame and abrasion resistant insulation and tinned wire - way better quality than what's available for boats.

Yep...I know that wire well. I am also an EE and we used that wire. That is awesome wire and you can find it at surplus electronic places easily. Fortunately, we had plenty of black around as well as white.

 

[davidhicks]

Re: grounding wires

I went out and got a fuse buss today, but I can not find a ground buss locally. I got the non working bilge pump out. Two new questions can you use something like purplepower in the bilge to clean it? It looks like some one dumped 20 gallons of grease in there. Second question is dose anyone have a generic diagram for the sending unit to the gas gauge?

 

[rwidman]

Re: grounding wires

I went out and got a fuse buss today, but I can not find a ground buss locally. I got the non working bilge pump out. Two new questions can you use something like purplepower in the bilge to clean it? It looks like some one dumped 20 gallons of grease in there. Second question is dose anyone have a generic diagram for the sending unit to the gas gauge?

I hope you purchased your fuse block at West Marine, not Pep Boys. There's a difference. You can get a block with both the positive buss and fuse holders and the negative bus on the same block. These are very convenient and effective for smaller boats with six or so circuits.

There is a wire from the sending unit to the gauge. And a wire from the other terminal of the sending unit to negative or ground. That's pretty generic.