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Rewiring a bass boat. Rewiring bass boat heres a simple but effective fuse panel buss bar. I need to rewire the entire boat fun i know. Once installed it will snap together with any ezacdc boat wiring harness. How to solder wires like a pro duration. Id rather have a dead battery than a swamped boat. Poor mans triple motor 12 foot center console bass boat duration.
The first thing i like to do when rewiring a boat is to make a list of all accessories that will be installed in that rig. Its pretty standard in boat wiring to bypass the main battery switch for one thing. Old crappy wires gata go 1 light flicker. So i soldered and shrink wrapped all new wiring. For the last several weeks i have been chasing a problem that has been causing me to lose sleep at night. No lights tach none of the switches on console work.
New fuse holders new switches. I was thinking about what i need and have a couple questions. Put the apporiate size fuse in the fuse holder and you are ready. Some like vhf radios and gps units come equipped with onoff. This way even if your battery switch is off if your boat starts filling with water the pump will still kick on. Late last year my 80 model bass trackers wireing gave up the ghost.
Feed from battery goes to the large post on right ground back the battery goes on large post on left. Ground wire form fixtures go on the small screws on left feed to fixture go on the middle screws. I finally conquered it by. Every time i think i have it fixed it seems like another issue pops up and im back to square one. 1 does a breakerfuse protect the wiring or the load. Todays boat wiring is one of the most difficult problems youll run across due to requirements of the numerous accessories.
After many decades of troubleshooting and repairing boat wiring issues ive become pretty darn good at figuring things out. The rewire kit comes with wiring and circuit protection for nine different boat functions so it should work fine for almost all boats. The boats bilge pump float switch.