Hooking up batteries on your boat
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Finally someone that kept it completely simple and showed from start to finish,from the battery to whatever your wiring,my God finally someone makes sense and talks slow and simple,thank you 👊👊👍
great video, it's always good to watch a video that bring knowledge with it, all the questions that Bill was asking most of them are simple ones but it help a lot to the ones that have no clue of what is going on.
Instablaster...
That chap knows his stuff and made it easily accessible. Kudos.
That was very impressive and it was a lot, of the best informative electrical base to keep you safe that was expertly explained clearly that made sense.
Thanks Guys!!!
Grate video. So many videos want to talk about big banks. Lots of people just need the 2 :)
...I have seen quite a few videos on wireing boats and campervans, this is the only one which have explained the lower the gauge the thicker the cable, thanks you have taught me something important, thumbs up...
thank you for watching, glad this was of help :)
I love how Bill still doesnt understand after excellent explanation. Many of us can relate. haha
A good basic overview of a battery bank system. Keep on gong I am listening!
thank you
Theory with practical lesson ...very informative thankx
great explanation, simple done for a complex process thank you, very good.
Awesome information, thanks for the great vid guys.
Great great video. Looking forward for more of these videos. Thanks 👍🏽
Great layman instructions.
Great video very informative. Thank you both.
That's about as simple as it gets. Great info.
thank you for watching
Great job Bill👍
The fuse (breaker) must be first after batteries - before the switch!
tHANK YOU FOR THE AWESOME VIDEO!!!
Fantastic video. Thanks
Fantastic explanation.
thanks and thank you for watching
Well said like your crimpers real nice bravo
Good stuff. Thanks
Man the technician is skiing before this video was made. Great Video to help people, Even though it's not what I was looking for.
thank you for watching, sorry it was not of help for you.
Everybody loves ray raymono remember that show you remind me of him but I’d love you to wire my boat respect your attention to detail
Thanks for the info exactly what I was looking for much appreciated
I love the old man testing his apprentice and teaching us at the same time a true trainer 😂
you should also use tinned stranded cable marine grade and keep loads away from battery posts where corrosion happens from outgasing...go to a terminal strip away from battery....a shunt on the negative side for proper amp/voltage meter to monitor all loads and charging
thank you i like the idea of using terminal strip
Great job and appreciations for the sharing with us this video 🇩🇰👍👌
thanks for watching
Thanks
can you show how to wire the trolling motor to the 60 amp circuit breaker. And the 50 amp circuit breaker to the lights & accessories. then tie that into the master cutoff switch?
Excellent detail Gents. Thanks for the video.
Best practice: Coat the conductor with dielectric grease prior to crimping. Heat shrink is only a form of insulation, NOT waterproofing, although it's great at hiding corrosion!
Thankfully 👍👍👍
What size fuse would you recommend when running different gauge wires like your fuse block setup? Would you go according to your higher gauge wire?
i will ask Bill
Just watched another video of yours on solar installation and was looking to see if you had a video showing the charger to battery hook up when I found this video. I’m also in Rock Hall and I’m getting ready to install the Renogy solar and charger system in our boat. I’d love to pick your brain about your installation and how you prioritize the MPPT charger vs your shore charger. Love your video on Rock Hall and Swan Creek! Thank you.
Hello Jon, thank you for watching. Video link
th-cam.com/video/Xop2IJ520Uc/w-d-xo.html i hope this is what you are looking for. we will be back in Rock Hall Monday afternoon. we are at North Point Marina, you are welcome to stop by any time
@@VagabondEpicurean Very helpful and thank you for the quick reply. For your installation, did you leave your shore power charger connected to the batteries or are you only using the Rover/Renogy charger? I’d love to stop by and take a look at the installation. We bought our Pearson from an owner out of Swan Creek but summer it at Grays Inn Creek Marina. We commute from Cincinnati and will be back on June 29th for a few weeks.
@@jonelliott9157 for now i still have the shore power charger connected, i need to get the inverter and then i will only need shore power for the HVAC. the battery charger will be available if needed. Please e-mail when you might be around, we have several cruising plans and may not be in the area dom@vagabondepicurean.com I am looking forward to meeting you.
@@VagabondEpicurean Thanks again Dom! I’ll send an email shortly with my information and any questions. Really appreciate the insight! Jon
Doesn’t ABYC require fuse within 7 inches of battery bank? First, before switch.
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Who’s using solid copper except at the breaker panel in a house? How do you think they pull the copper wiring through the house...it’s stranded too.
Got any more of these videos? I think it is a series you are doing, but I don't know exactly how many you will produce. When you do get back to food production, could you do some pressure cooker meals? You could do the stove top cooker or an InstaPot or something like it. Not in a hurry on that...I like these just fine... I am enjoying them immensely Dom...Was looking for a new one and thought I would offer a word of encouragement.
thks Allyn, I am working on the next video for this series, but I have not found anyone with the knowledge to talk about inverters. But am still looking.
I don’t have a pressure cooker, but that is a good idea. I have a cooking videos scheduled for today at 3 eastern time. Hope to have one every Tuesday going forward.
@@VagabondEpicurean Well yes it might be hard to find someone to talk about inverters. Will Prowse on youtube has some good inverter videos. I will tell you that as a boater you want a pure sine wave inverter, true sine wave inverter, or certified true sine wave inverter. The pure sine wave inverters usually are good enough. A lot of people make the mistake of buying a modified sine wave inverter, or sine wave inverter, and they end up cooking their stuff....your electronic stuff. My favorite inverter is the GoWise PS1005. A very reliable and well supported Pure Sine Wave inverter typically available for $189 off amazon. It is great for boats and powers my cabin right now that I am working on with a 100 watt Rich Solar solar poly-crystalline panel($81) and a 12 volt battery. I have a 40 amp Epever Mppt solar charge controller(The one that is a big heat sink looking one with the fins) which with all the bells and whistles is about $204 on Amazon. You can get PWM solar charge controllers at 30 amps for less than $15 on ebay that would likely do 200-300 wats of solar on your boat...just not as good as an mppt solar charge controller. So for $300 you could get solar on your boat. Since I am only at the cabin once or twice a week, it powers everything but aircon and refrigeration. With 200-500 watts of solar your boat could power refrigeration (minus aircon)and everything else typically. I think you could get at least 200 watts on there as is...Go watch Will Prowse's videos and then talk about the inverters on your own. You will do fine.
Good video but one question. If you’re hooking up two batteries, how is the second battery hooked up to the switch?
It's not directly. Once the batteries (two or more) are connected they form one "bank" or unit either in series or more likely parallel as he showed, so remember take positive from the 'start' of the battery bank and negative from the 'end' of the battery bank. In this example, the red positive feed wire would be exact as it was and the yellow return would go to the negative terminal on the last battery in your bank.
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Hi Capt. Dom. I'd contacted you the comments a few months ago about a trip we may make up to Rock Hall this summer. Well, we're leaving tomorrow and may be in RH next week, early. Are you around? Me and another Vagabond Epicurean fan will possibly be there. Maybe we could grab a beer.
great, i should be around. I am at North Point Marina. best rates in the area, i look forward to meeting you guys :)
@@VagabondEpicurean Great. We've booked three slips for Monday, June 17th. See you then!
I believe the light circuit should be fused on the positive side to protect the wire if a short circuit was to occur. Did I miss the placement of one?
I think that is a fuse board with individual fuses where the gauge is stepped down, I guess you could put one after the light switch itself (or maybe that too was fused).
@14:27 is the heat shrink brand and heat gun brand the same brand as the crimp tool brand, wire brand, and terminal brand?😏😊
i know but it is what they do :)
I want to install one of those on/off switches by my cranking battery. I don’t understand from your video what wires go into the switch and what wires come out. Great video btw. I can’t find any info anywhere on how to wire in this on off switch anywhere. Any help would be greatly appreciated
I think you want the positive wires
@@VagabondEpicurean going from where and to what location in the switch?No black negative wires to the switch?
Very nice. What about bonding and grounding?
i am still working on that, 😎 thanks for watching
Hi I've just watched your video and I have a 50hp tohatsu outboard I also hAve a blue sea dual distribution cluster which I want to connect to 2 batteries in my wilson flyer but I am unable to find out the correct information of how it should be wired up with the charge unit for the 2 batteries as I want to use the original fuse holder which has all of the nav lights on it already wired up including the fish finder WIRES. Please can you help as I have watched your video and understand that if you wire negative to negative and positive to positive as you did in your 2nd example will this safely charge up each of the batteries in turn?
Hello, I am not sure that is why i have an expert do the talking. With that said, each battery should be charged.
Shouldn't you have the main fuse/breaker as close to the battery as possible? In your circuit what happens if the cables shorten between the battery and your main switch?
yes thanks for watching
Great stuff, I have a question Does ABYC have a distance for the main fuse from the battery and should it be installed Prior to the battery switch?
Yes before the battery and a quick Google search said 7" or 40" if in a sheath.
ABYC code requires a fuse on or within 7 inches of the battery, does it not?
not that i know of, i thought is was 5ft but i will try to find out, thank you for watching
So the negative “yellow” goes from the light to the negative side of the fuse block?
yes thank you for watching
The fuse should come as close to the power source as possible. In this case, before the main switch.
Typically 7" or less per ABYC.
Dumb question.... what was the wire gauge he had when he used the big crimper ? And what is the safest gauge if I’m using 14 gauge for my lights, switch panel, bilge ?????
i am not sure I will forward to questions to Bill, thank you for watching.
Not a how to, but a philosophy class
Spade terminal not allowed on passenger vessels.
If I have two trolling motor batteries connected and I hook one of those batteries up to a charger, will it eventually charge both batteries??
i think you are better of connecting them in parallel
@@VagabondEpicurean Thanks for the response. Sorry, I didn’t specify, they will be connected parallel. Will one charger charge both batteries that way?
How to parallel batteries with different amp hours
Why not more that 4 ring terminals on a post? Could I get away with copper wire on a boat and not tinned copper wire?
Tinned wire is more corrosive resistant. I have learned that even the air around saltwater carries small amounts of salt. I would not recommend using regular wire. Not sure why max 4 rings on a terminals. the ABYC does a LOT of testing.
Thanks for watching and for your questions
@@VagabondEpicurean I was panning on using an inline fuse for my Sonar. The wire for the inline fuse is 1 ft long and 12 ga. I was then going to extend the length of wire to the bow requiring 18 more feet of 10 ga wire. Can I put the inline fuse near the battery even though it is 12 ga or do I have to attach near the bow just before the sonar? BTW, my boat only sees fresh water......
@@larrythompson5617 i try to put the inline fuse in an easy to reach location, most of the time it is near the battery
@@VagabondEpicurean Sounds good. I was concerned the smaller gauge wire near the battery would restrict the amp flow. Thanks for your help...
One thing 'you' don't seem to use is liquid electrical tape. After I crimp a terminal I shove liquid electrical tape inside all areas of terminal i can get it in before heat shrinking to positively seal it from any salt air or water getting to wire strands. Too many times i have seen wires with adhesive shrink that still have areas water and salt air can get to strands. I have had to rewire failed wiring done by others too many times. You also never mentioned using dielectric grease on all connections you can get it on. I also disagree with you on spade terminals. Use 'ring' terminals instead of spade terminals, they are just so much more dependable and eliminate more potential wire troubles. ***Dielectric grease and liquid electrical tape is your friend long term when wiring is used on a saltwater boat! Learned my lesson on depending on other peoples wiring techniques!
Well I wired.my 25Ft cuddy W/A with a 4.3L I/O I used 250Ft of 16 gauge for electronics and another maybe 30Ft of 6 Gage for grounds and power all tinned copper wire! All crimped with sealing heat shrink! That was 25 years ago this year! My boat is docked in salt water all summer every summer since I Bought the boat 25 years ago! The only thing I use Dielectric grease on is my light bulbs! I did not get to the part in the vid where he said he uses fork terminals, But I can tell you that the USCG says to use only ring terminals! If you are using high quality marine grade products you should not have any corrosion or issues! Also liquid electrical tape will dry out and crack over time and it will leak! If you had to redo failed connectors most likely the reason was poor workmanship or crappy materials! People think because they watch a TH-cam video they now know how to do it just like someone that has been in the business for over 20 years! With everything else in life practice makes perfect, So why do people think they can watch a video and now all of a sudden they can do it too! People say boats are money pits I say the people that throw money into boats are the people watching videos and doing their own work! I've been boatng over 30 years, I had to be towed in one time, Due to a brand new condenser that failed after changing it with the points 2 weeks earlier!
Put dielectric grease on top of connectors, not between connector matting surfaces.
Dielectric = not conductive.
Don't touch bare wire with your bare hands.
Skin oil will add resistance.
Use the thickest lugs you can afford.
Imagine the cross section of the wire compared to the cross section of the lug's neck cross section between the wire and the hole.
Spade lugs are for low current circuits.
thanks for the info :)
Crimpin' ain't easy!!
21:13 21:14 long day?
Shunt goes to the negative battery terminal
And LENGTH OF THE WIRE...!
the length may require a bigger wire, or smaller, this link may help www.westmarine.com/WestAdvisor/Marine-Wire-Size-And-Ampacity
material list would be nice, video needs improvement.
the camera men don't need to to point the whole picture . jest need to show what the hand he pointing . what the hand he pick up . . this is not the talk show .
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You talk touch just show how to hook up the equipment buddy
The guy with the goofy shirt just needs to go away.
oh, thanks :(
30 seconds in, bored already...
sorry to hear that,