DC System - 2018

Various work.

Here I installed the momentary bilge pump switches on the upper left, so you can't accidently leave a pump on all the time.

I secured the doors with latches and added the shell pull.

After the engine start-up I discovered that the starter solenoid took a lot of power and I had wired it with too light a wire gauge. So I wired the starter with 2/0 AWG, but then I needed a bus bar to hook up these heavy cables. On the left is the 12VDC plus and on the right is the ground bus.

Note: Not that I am cheap or anything but I make my own wire lugs for these big wires. If I didn't make my own I would be running to the hardware store for different ones to match the terminal size and spend a few bucks on each of them. So all I do is use my scrap copper tubing I have around the shop, smash one end flat with the hammer, then cut the the tube off an inch back from the squashed section. Insert cable in the end, crimp, solder then drill the hole to fit the terminal lug.

As you can see I also make my own bus bars out off squashed copper tubing.

   
Mounted 2 battery trays on the port side, for a total of 3 batteries. 2 trays on the starboard side for a total of 5 house batteries. The forward battery on the port side will be balanced against the aqualift.