Need advice on hooking up a single battery switch and busbars.

[jcole59946]

Howdy, I'm ready to install a battery switch and bus bars in my Glastron GT205. It's a single battery system. I made a switch board with a BlueSea single battery switch connected to a positive bus bar and included a separate negative busbar. I plan to take all the wires stacked on the negative battery terminal and move them to the negative busbar. Then run a 4 gauge wire from the negative busbar to the negative battery terminal. I will take all the wires stacked on positive battery terminal and move them to the positive busbar except for the starter wire which will be placed on the switch common post. The positive busbar is connected to the common switch terminal with an 8 gauge wire. Finally I will connect the battery to the other switch terminal using another 4 gauge wire. From what I can tell all the positive battery wires have inline fuses. Attached is a picture of my switch board. Please tell help me out and let me know if this plan is correct! An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure!!!

 

[alldodge]

Howdy, I'm ready to install a battery switch and bus bars in my Glastron GT205. It's a single battery system. I made a switch board with a BlueSea single battery switch connected to a positive bus bar and included a separate negative busbar. I plan to take all the wires stacked on the negative battery terminal and move them to the negative busbar. Then run a 4 gauge wire from the negative busbar to the negative battery terminal. I will take all the wires stacked on positive battery terminal and move them to the positive busbar except for the starter wire which will be placed on the switch common post. The positive busbar is connected to the common switch terminal with an 8 gauge wire. Finally I will connect the battery to the other switch terminal using another 4 gauge wire. From what I can tell all the positive battery wires have inline fuses. Attached is a picture of my switch board. Please tell help me out and let me know if this plan is correct! An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure!!!

If I understand what your wanting to do is the switch will not disconnect the battery from the starter, it will only disconnect the battery from the loads you will connect to your buss bar. If this is correct then your setup will work.

That said, if you run your battery cable to the switch, then from the other side to your starter, and then have your smaller jumper to your buss bar will allow you to disconnect everything. Either way you do it make sure your bilge pump does not do through the switch, it needs to be connect straight to the battery

 

[jcole59946]

Thanks AllDodge. I will leave the bilge pump connections stacked on the battery. All other connections should go through the switch. The goal of my post was to inquire If was doing something wrong or damaging anything. Thanks again.