Great video. Concise and well thought out. You told us what you were going to do and then showed us. Most wiring videos on TH-cam require wading thru minutes of useless information and then never show anything. You demo was very nicely presented and filmed. Thanks so much!
Finally finally I located this video which gives an excellent explanation of how to set this thing up. I tried repeatedly with nylite to download some kind of installation video. I could not even find a paper download. So I can't thank you enough. I can't thank you enough for this video
This is top level boat wiring at it's finest. The products used are marine grade (not cheap junk) and will provide years of reliable and safe service. He is meticulous and methodical each step of the way, and everyone should take note of how this is done, because safety is imperative on water. I've witnessed first hand very unsafe and unreliable boat wiring techniques and corrected many hack jobs. I salute you sir for doing it the right way and taking the time to show others how it should be done. Thank you.
I got the same 3 switch set up for my kayak and since my cordless battery died while putting holes in my boat, I turned on YT...... Sooo glad I found your channel. Well done information sir! Answered many questions I had! Subscribed and bell ringing!!
...a little after 13:00...series, not parallel. I watched this a couple months ago and have been thinking about it. Tonight I'm watching it and it all finally is sinking into my brain, I sincerely thank you.
Wow! I just bought the exact same setup before I watched your video. Thank you so much for that. I just now rigged mine exactly how you did. My Pelican 10E is gonna work fantastic now. God bless you my friend.
Watched countless videos, then finally yours, you answered my questions, and showed just what I wanted to know. Best video out there for showing how to individualize switch panel!! Thanks
Awesome video, thanks for the simple and calm tone of voice in your video explanation. As a novice in electrical matters it is greatly appreciated when someone explains things in this manner. New Subscriber!
You’ve made it super clear and easy,I had the whole switch panel with one main feed to the breaker which wouldn’t allow me to use each switch separately,thank you so much 👊👊
Greatly detailed video, thank you. I purchased the same type of rocker switch panel for my sailboat and I was also wondering about the constant battery drain because of the lighting on the panel. Just about to fix that now, thank you again.
Agree with others very good video.. I am building a skiff for myself and I am going to add lighting for my hatches and the switch will activate when the hatch is opened !
All to save draining your battery when not using it install a isolator to turn off all battery power when not in use which is what i will be doing, Great video btw.
I have one suggestion for future movies. In this movie I wish that you had used extra wire that was, say red and black, to connect to the back of the box so we could physically see what you were connecting. I think I have enough electrical knowledge to know what you did but you actually held the box with the switches directly in front of the camera and then somehow manipulated with your fingers to touch the leads or poles on the battery. It would be nice if we could actually see that being done. I don't know if you can do it or not but it would be cool to simply insert into your current video exactly what that would look like. That would probably help out a lot of us a great deal. Other than that it's just a great great video great video
Was looking at and testing my identical rocker panel yesterday and wondering how I can separate them to not have the whole thing on one power source. Your video is perfect!! Since I won’t need all 6 switches, I’ll actually use the switch one as my on switch instead of an extra toggle. Thanks for a great video!
Great video my friend. I’ve enjoyed all of them but this was very well explained and demonstrated. Also, you could wire up one of the switches on the gang panel to turn on the switch lights and voltmeter if you have one open. Looking forward to the next one!
Thabks Richard. Good point. I'm saving my last open switch for courtesy lights which prob wouldn't be 2021 addition. I guess I could have used the open slot in the meantime.
I know that this is late, but thanks for another great video! Like I mentioned to you in another video, I'm in the planning process for my 16'X50" jon right now. I'm going to fish it as is this year and get an idea of how I want things. This was very helpful.
I have the same set up on my boat and I hooked up my Nav lights to the same toggle switch and all the little blue LEDs and Nav lights up together at night. My problem is too many fuses to deal with. Great video.
Nice work! I’m hoping to get an invite to go fishing once you’ve got her all wrapped up and ready! Lol... but seriously, she’s going to be nice when she’s done!
Awesome demo and love the whey you took some time to explain your intentions.... this makes it so much easier to follow. Well done. Could you simply leave the blue and yellow wires disconnected which would leave the lights permanently off?
Nice video. I have a similar panel and this video gave me some great ideas. I like the separate switch for the voltmeter and bottom led. Nice. Thank you
Around 10:05...don't heat-shrink both ends before you melt the solder...that will lock an air-bubble in the middle which prevents the heat-shrink from shrinking down against the soldered connections. Also, the first connectors you used can be heat-shrink instead of just clamping. I still add another heat-shrink in exterior applications but it's not necessary. I get mine from Amazon. Over the past year (14 months since I bought my first boat...a 30 year old wellkraft cuddy) I've watched dozens of TH-cam videos on boat wiring but you video is the only one I haven't removed from my "Watch Later" list. I'm adding, so far, 20 switches as I completely replace every wire and electrical thingie on the boat.
mate I saw your video just in time which is save me so much trouble thank you very much for sharing I needed to see this video cos I was buggered before I saw this video
Hey BBF, great video. Can you do a video on the use of relays, breakers, shut off switches and fuse panel. Basically the whole enchilada and how they work and where you’ld place them on your boat. Appreciate it and looking forward to rewiring my boat!!
Thanks man, I got a Thunder jet and have not really been happy with the way the toggle board was set up. But every time I crawl under the dash it's just a mess and makes me think it's too much. Your methodology and the connectors will be helpful.
I was thinking since i dont need all six rockers maybe i could use one of them to power the meter and the lower LED sited of buying an extra switch. Or i could just add more stuff to the panel. Lol
Damn you're good!!! I'm like, " Sshhh!!! Everybody shut the hell up!!! The man knows his ship. What~ cut~ pull~ Wait!!! Rewind that.. Switch~ to the what??? Oh damn~ Play it again, he's a genius!!!" Thank You!!!
Awesome content!! Couldn't you use that second toggle switch as the overall "Master power switch" that way the LEDS and voltage meter are only running when the "Master power switch" is on which would likely be only when the boat is being used and when the boat is not being used you can turn that switch off and nothing would be getting power and then there would be no power draining the battery I am thinking about doing that for my boat and curious if that would workout? Also could you rig it up so one of those switches in the panel is the "Master power switch"?
The Master Power Switch fullfils the need to be able to control power being drained only when the boat is in use. Now that I've used the control panel and boat for over a year now, I've experienced that the voltage meter and lower LEDs really don't drain the battery to the point where you need the toggle switch. To keep things simple I would just leave it out of the build. It's more of a good to have. Not really a necessity
leave the red and black the way they are only modify the blue and yellow for the lower lights and wire the voltage meter into the blue and yellow instead of the red and black
Could you connect the volt meter and backlighting into your running lights so that once it's dark enough to switch on your running lights those will only work at that time?
Great video! Suggestion: you could have also connected the voltmeter to the ignition switch so it would only run when the key is in the on position and take the original posters advice and connect the backlighting to the lights.
Thanks! Great video. What about wiring the lower LEDs to the navigation light switch? That way if you’re using your lights at night you illuminate the switch panel lights as well
Thanks for this great set of videos. I can’t seem to find a video on your Battery charger setup. Am I missing something, or the link to which one you chose. Thanks again, just starting our build.
That's awesome here is a link tot eh on-board charger I chose for my boat amzn.to/3hJIKN0 Let me know if you have any installation questions and I'll try to help you out.
@@BassBrothersFishingDMV one more question. If I have 3 batteries. 2 in tandem, should I wire each bank to each battery separately or just wire one to one battery and the second bank to the paralleled batteries NOT using the 3 bank on the charger? Just trying to figure out what set up to get. Sorry. I looked at their site but couldn’t find the answer.
@@ChrisBusinsky Good question. wire each battery separately. So if you have 3 batteries buy a 3 bank charger. It doesn't matter if two of the batteries are wired parallel.
@@BassBrothersFishingDMV Since you've been so helpful, I have another question. I have 2, 1" holes from where I took out the livewell lines. What would be the best way to plug those. I was thinking a new threw plug, but there are so many and I'm afraid one might come out while we were fishing. Just wanted to get your opinion and if you have a favorite thru plug you've use let me know. Really appreciate the help!
Hook blue wire to a switch on the panel. On my boat I hooked the blue wire in with my lights so the small leds on the switch come one when i hit the lights
@@BerryMcCaulkiner859 my panel is similar but it has a yellow wire with the blue wire. Do I connect the yellow wire to common ground with the other negative wires?
Thanks for walking us through on this. Looking at that jumble of wires doesn't look so intimidating now!
Great video. Concise and well thought out. You told us what you were going to do and then showed us. Most wiring videos on TH-cam require wading thru minutes of useless information and then never show anything. You demo was very nicely presented and filmed. Thanks so much!
Thanks Suzanne. Appreciate the feedback. 👍🏾🤙🏾
Good Info, I'm a Carpenter, I didn't know anything about this , but I have a bunch of knowledge now. And yes saved to bookmarks if I need a refresher.
Finally finally I located this video which gives an excellent explanation of how to set this thing up. I tried repeatedly with nylite to download some kind of installation video. I could not even find a paper download. So I can't thank you enough. I can't thank you enough for this video
This is top level boat wiring at it's finest. The products used are marine grade (not cheap junk) and will provide years of reliable and safe service. He is meticulous and methodical each step of the way, and everyone should take note of how this is done, because safety is imperative on water. I've witnessed first hand very unsafe and unreliable boat wiring techniques and corrected many hack jobs. I salute you sir for doing it the right way and taking the time to show others how it should be done. Thank you.
Thanks for your feedback. Appreciate it 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Great explanation of I’m sure a very common rewire issue...Your techniques and use of fasteners was excellent..
Thanks and good fishing...👍
Thanks Russ!!!
I got the same 3 switch set up for my kayak and since my cordless battery died while putting holes in my boat, I turned on YT...... Sooo glad I found your channel. Well done information sir! Answered many questions I had! Subscribed and bell ringing!!
Thanks for subbing. Glad you like the video.
Dude you just layed out my project tomorrow, I have the same switch panel
...a little after 13:00...series, not parallel. I watched this a couple months ago and have been thinking about it. Tonight I'm watching it and it all finally is sinking into my brain, I sincerely thank you.
Awesome 👍🏾
You’re the man for actually showing us what you’re doing when wiring. Gonna copy your setup
Have at it bud. It's a nice setup and performing as expected. Good luck and enjoy.
Wow! I just bought the exact same setup before I watched your video. Thank you so much for that. I just now rigged mine exactly how you did. My Pelican 10E is gonna work fantastic now. God bless you my friend.
That's awesome Hugh. I'm excited for you. Your Pelican is going to be sweet!!!🤙🏾👍🏾
Watched countless videos, then finally yours, you answered my questions, and showed just what I wanted to know. Best video out there for showing how to individualize switch panel!! Thanks
Awesome man 🤙🏾👍🏾
You did an excellent job of describing the switch panel and possible modifications needed. I think you have excellent ideas of use! Very helpful!
Thabks. Appreciate the feedback 🤙🏾👍🏾
Excellent video for someone like me who is NOT an electrician. I have this exact switch box but with 5 gang. Your video helped me a lot! Thank you!
Awesome. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Awesome video, thanks for the simple and calm tone of voice in your video explanation. As a novice in electrical matters it is greatly appreciated when someone explains things in this manner. New Subscriber!
I had a Chinese panel just like this and I was wondering how to make these changes! Your video is so well done thank you!
Thanks 👍🏾🤙🏾
I don't know how I haven't come across your channel before. Awesome info. Thanks for sharing.
No prob. Thanks for watching.
Nice straight forward video without all the unnecessary explaining of stupid details we don't need. Thanks Good job!
Thanks for the feedback Dan. 🤙🏾👍🏾💯
Love your Vids! You do a great job with breaking things down for us commoners.
Thanks from one commoner to another👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾 😎
Thanks for such a thoughtful and thorough post. An appreciated public service
Thanks Llyas. Appreciate you 👊🏾🤙🏾
Great ideas here. I did "stock wiring". Now I'm going to redo it
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Thanks for bringing us along. I like the detail you provide with what you're doing.
Thanks 65MK. Hopefully it helps others out there. I spent tons of hours researching everything so hopefully I can save others time on their builds.
You’ve made it super clear and easy,I had the whole switch panel with one main feed to the breaker which wouldn’t allow me to use each switch separately,thank you so much 👊👊
No problem. 👊🏾👍🏾🤙🏾
Excellent explanation of the switch. Many thanks
Thanks Karl. Trying to bring as much detail and insight as possible.
Greatly detailed video, thank you. I purchased the same type of rocker switch panel for my sailboat and I was also wondering about the constant battery drain because of the lighting on the panel. Just about to fix that now, thank you again.
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Agree with others very good video.. I am building a skiff for myself and I am going to add lighting for my hatches and the switch will activate when the hatch is opened !
Thanks for making this. I've been looking at getting this panel for my 1650 jet boat.
Awesome
All to save draining your battery when not using it install a isolator to turn off all battery power when not in use which is what i will be doing, Great video btw.
Thanks. I'll check it out.
Man it's really becomig a trick jonboat! Thanks for always showing the details. Looking forward to seeing the full wiring video!👍💪
Thanks Ian. Appreciate the feedback. Next vid cuming soon.
Awesome video that helps me out a lot! You explaining everything in detail and keeping it simple made this build easy to follow. Much appreciated.
Awesome. Glad it helped.
I have one suggestion for future movies. In this movie I wish that you had used extra wire that was, say red and black, to connect to the back of the box so we could physically see what you were connecting. I think I have enough electrical knowledge to know what you did but you actually held the box with the switches directly in front of the camera and then somehow manipulated with your fingers to touch the leads or poles on the battery. It would be nice if we could actually see that being done. I don't know if you can do it or not but it would be cool to simply insert into your current video exactly what that would look like. That would probably help out a lot of us a great deal. Other than that it's just a great great video great video
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll use that going forward
Great job on the explanation and walking us through. Wiring always freaks me out and you taught well!
Thanks 🤙🏾👍🏾
Great info. Thanks for your detailed explanations. Makes perfect sense
Was looking at and testing my identical rocker panel yesterday and wondering how I can separate them to not have the whole thing on one power source. Your video is perfect!! Since I won’t need all 6 switches, I’ll actually use the switch one as my on switch instead of an extra toggle.
Thanks for a great video!
No problem. That's a great way to go if you don't need all the switches. Thanks for watching!!!
Finally, found what I needed to finish my build. Thank you!!!
Awesome 👍🏾🤙🏾
Thank You!!! Thank You!!! Thank You!!! You just saved me an entire day of pulling my hair out troubleshooting this issue!
Thank you for helping me understand this better!
I’ve been utilizing your videos for my salmon/steelhead boat. Thanks for the good info.
No problem. 🤙🏾👍🏾
Great video. I need to do some electrical work on my Grady White…
Thanks, that was a great help. Now I am confident to customise the wiring on my 8 gang rocker panel and 12 block fuse box.
Awesome 👍🏾
Great video my friend. I’ve enjoyed all of them but this was very well explained and demonstrated. Also, you could wire up one of the switches on the gang panel to turn on the switch lights and voltmeter if you have one open. Looking forward to the next one!
Thabks Richard. Good point. I'm saving my last open switch for courtesy lights which prob wouldn't be 2021 addition. I guess I could have used the open slot in the meantime.
I know that this is late, but thanks for another great video! Like I mentioned to you in another video, I'm in the planning process for my 16'X50" jon right now. I'm going to fish it as is this year and get an idea of how I want things. This was very helpful.
Thanks Steve. Never too late for positive feedback 😃🤙🏾👍🏾👊🏾
I have that same panel and making adjustments myself, pretty easy to modify
by the way great video and explanation. I'm rewiring my boat and this is great info
I have the same set up on my boat and I hooked up my Nav lights to the same toggle switch and all the little blue LEDs and Nav lights up together at night. My problem is too many fuses to deal with. Great video.
Thanks
GREAT VID
Best breakdown I've seen! Much thanks brother
Thanks. 👍🏾🤙🏾💯
Great video and very thorough....excited to see more video's from you. Thanks
Thanks James. Enjoy the series
Nice Job very well explained. Thank you!!!
Awesome, just what I needed!
Awesome 🤙🏾👍🏾
Great video brother! Very informative, look forward to the next ! Keep up the good work.
Sorry man. Just seeing this comment. Thanks for the feedback.
Nice work! I’m hoping to get an invite to go fishing once you’ve got her all wrapped up and ready! Lol... but seriously, she’s going to be nice when she’s done!
Thanks Andrew. Ca'nt wait. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. 🙂🎣🎣🐟🐟
Thanks buddy from the UK.
Thanks for watching. 👍🏾
Great video, step by step and easy.
Awesome demo and love the whey you took some time to explain your intentions.... this makes it so much easier to follow. Well done.
Could you simply leave the blue and yellow wires disconnected which would leave the lights permanently off?
Lots of good information! Thanks for sharing! 🤙
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Nice video. I have a similar panel and this video gave me some great ideas. I like the separate switch for the voltmeter and bottom led. Nice. Thank you
Around 10:05...don't heat-shrink both ends before you melt the solder...that will lock an air-bubble in the middle which prevents the heat-shrink from shrinking down against the soldered connections. Also, the first connectors you used can be heat-shrink instead of just clamping. I still add another heat-shrink in exterior applications but it's not necessary. I get mine from Amazon. Over the past year (14 months since I bought my first boat...a 30 year old wellkraft cuddy) I've watched dozens of TH-cam videos on boat wiring but you video is the only one I haven't removed from my "Watch Later" list. I'm adding, so far, 20 switches as I completely replace every wire and electrical thingie on the boat.
Awesome man. Sounds like a cool project. Thanks for the tip
What a brilliant video! Thank you so much for being so very informative!!
Excellent video. Good quality workmanship. Thank you.
Thanks 🤙🏾👍🏾
mate I saw your video just in time which is save me so much trouble thank you very much for sharing I needed to see this video cos I was buggered before I saw this video
Alright man I learned something, thanks for your help , well explained process.
All good. Glad you like the video.
Great video! Thank you!!!
Thanks for watching!!!
Great videos! I got some good tips from you! I’ll be re wiring a 1993 Skeeter I just bought in a few weeks!
Awesome man. Good luck.
Thank you for another great video.
Stay Safe
Thank you for the clear instructions.
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Great explanation! Thank you for making this vid
No problem. 🤙🏾👍🏾
Nicely done! Well explained!
Thanks 🤙🏾👍🏾
Very nice job explaining!
Thanks 🤙🏾👍🏾
Thank you so much.
Thank you for sharing this, very helpful!
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Hey BBF, great video. Can you do a video on the use of relays, breakers, shut off switches and fuse panel. Basically the whole enchilada and how they work and where you’ld place them on your boat. Appreciate it and looking forward to rewiring my boat!!
Is there a video where you hook up the negative and positive connection to the switch panel to the fuse box?
Thanks man, I got a Thunder jet and have not really been happy with the way the toggle board was set up. But every time I crawl under the dash it's just a mess and makes me think it's too much. Your methodology and the connectors will be helpful.
Awesome 👍🏾 🤙🏾
I was thinking since i dont need all six rockers maybe i could use one of them to power the meter and the lower LED sited of buying an extra switch. Or i could just add more stuff to the panel. Lol
Great stuff!
Thanks my friend. 🤙🏾👍🏾
Great explanation.Thanks
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Damn you're good!!!
I'm like, " Sshhh!!! Everybody shut the hell up!!! The man knows his ship. What~ cut~ pull~ Wait!!! Rewind that.. Switch~ to the what??? Oh damn~ Play it again, he's a genius!!!"
Thank You!!!
Excellent, Thank you
No prob!!!
nice job...thanks for sharing
Thanks!
Awesome content!! Couldn't you use that second toggle switch as the overall "Master power switch" that way the LEDS and voltage meter are only running when the "Master power switch" is on which would likely be only when the boat is being used and when the boat is not being used you can turn that switch off and nothing would be getting power and then there would be no power draining the battery
I am thinking about doing that for my boat and curious if that would workout?
Also could you rig it up so one of those switches in the panel is the "Master power switch"?
The Master Power Switch fullfils the need to be able to control power being drained only when the boat is in use. Now that I've used the control panel and boat for over a year now, I've experienced that the voltage meter and lower LEDs really don't drain the battery to the point where you need the toggle switch. To keep things simple I would just leave it out of the build. It's more of a good to have. Not really a necessity
You do a fantastic job explaining how to do things. How do you hook up a switch?
Have a picture of what it should look like once it’s all hooked up?
Thanks
In reference to the voltmeter, could you install a small normally open push button switch inline, if you want to check voltage just push the button.
Awesome!!
Thanks
Would you have been able to integrate on of the switches on the actual panel to control the constant things you wanted turned off?
I did. It's a good option if you have an extra switch to use.
Great tutorial on how to wire the panel
How do they label the rocker switch labels?
Label maker. Also, some switch panels come with pre-made labels but they're typically not that good.
You could just run the voltage meter and the switch lights to ignition on. Then when you have your key “on” the lights and meter will turn on
How would I go about keeping the regular wiring but just adding the on off switch for the bottom led's and voltage meter? Appreciate it
leave the red and black the way they are only modify the blue and yellow for the lower lights and wire the voltage meter into the blue and yellow instead of the red and black
great vidio
Thanks
Could you connect the volt meter and backlighting into your running lights so that once it's dark enough to switch on your running lights those will only work at that time?
Yepp. That's a great idea.
Great video! Suggestion: you could have also connected the voltmeter to the ignition switch so it would only run when the key is in the on position and take the original posters advice and connect the backlighting to the lights.
Thanks! Great video. What about wiring the lower LEDs to the navigation light switch? That way if you’re using your lights at night you illuminate the switch panel lights as well
That's a good option. I think I'll try that out on my next build.
Good idea
Thx for the video
My boat I got is 900 don’t want my buttons to cost more than the boat
But, ya know who you gotta have switches for…..⚡️😜
Lol right. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Sorry about my last comment, I did it early in the video before I realized you already had a fix in mind for the voltmeter. My bad.
Great video. Could two of the switches be replaced with on/off/on switches for use with power anchors?
Thanks for this great set of videos. I can’t seem to find a video on your Battery charger setup. Am I missing something, or the link to which one you chose. Thanks again, just starting our build.
That's awesome here is a link tot eh on-board charger I chose for my boat amzn.to/3hJIKN0 Let me know if you have any installation questions and I'll try to help you out.
@@BassBrothersFishingDMV one more question. If I have 3 batteries. 2 in tandem, should I wire each bank to each battery separately or just wire one to one battery and the second bank to the paralleled batteries NOT using the 3 bank on the charger? Just trying to figure out what set up to get. Sorry. I looked at their site but couldn’t find the answer.
@@ChrisBusinsky Good question. wire each battery separately. So if you have 3 batteries buy a 3 bank charger. It doesn't matter if two of the batteries are wired parallel.
@@BassBrothersFishingDMV Since you've been so helpful, I have another question. I have 2, 1" holes from where I took out the livewell lines. What would be the best way to plug those. I was thinking a new threw plug, but there are so many and I'm afraid one might come out while we were fishing. Just wanted to get your opinion and if you have a favorite thru plug you've use let me know. Really appreciate the help!
I done the samething but used one of the switches on the panel and not a extra one.
This is what I’m trying to do. care to share?
Hook blue wire to a switch on the panel. On my boat I hooked the blue wire in with my lights so the small leds on the switch come one when i hit the lights
@@BerryMcCaulkiner859 my panel is similar but it has a yellow wire with the blue wire. Do I connect the yellow wire to common ground with the other negative wires?
Super helpful! Any link to the LED lights?
I actually started using these LEDs recently. They're much brighter. amzn.to/3tHReJi
All good. Thanks for watching.