SUPER EASY Boat Wiring Electrical Diagrams, Fuse blocks, busbars, marine grade
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I've learned more in the last 13 minutes than I have in my entire life about wiring. I always seem to let it get to me and overcomplicate things. This made it a breeze to understand. Simple actually. Thanks!
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Am looking to get a used boat that will definitely become a project. The boat is 33 years old so I am going to redo every system in it to include the electrical wiring, gauges, pumps, convert to LED lighting thru-out and generally whatever it needs. I am medically retired so as long as I am above ground, I will have and make time to work on the boat. Even if I go before the boat sees the water again, I will pass it on to my brother who is a fisherman. It is also therapy. Thanks for providing an easy to use diagram. I am mechanically inclined and have put together 4x4's and a few other things. Wiring seemed to be my weak area, may because of the intimidation factor. But it should go smoothly now. Thanks again.
Electrical work is an absolute nightmare for me. Thanks for breaking it down as simply as you did on here. I’ll probably end up watching this video a few more times but I have a good idea in my head now.
Very informative, I’m buying an old boat and want to rewire the entire boat as soon as i get it. This video was a huge help!
Just inherited a 1978 sea nymph fishing machine and need to figure out the trim tilt wiring , now I want to rewire the whole thing and add more lights. Your came out super clean good work
Good luck!
Holy smokes....i think our son and i can actually rewire (or at least clean things up a bit) on our boat now. THANK U VERY VERY MUCH!!!!
Great video. I didn't even know there was a difference in the wire. I just got my first boat I'm a 44 year old car guy and planned on doing my boat like a car. Thanks for teaching me and saving me some future headaches.
If you run either of the cable types through conduit then they will likely last the same amount of time and you should be tinning your own wire ends and fluxing up before hearing solder. Rosin core solder still gets cold solders if you don't use flux. Heating "low temp" solder is not in any way ideal and I'm suprised he went for that since he was clued up about the wire guage.
Small but important point ... follow standard DC wiring code and use RED for the positive and BLACK for the negative.
You can also purchase some flexible plastic conduit that you run all the wires through and makes it much tidier and easier to keep compartments clean. Your video was easy to follow.
Yellow is the international color code for D.C. neg. The boating industry went to this because of boats shipped overseas where in many countries black is used for both D.C. & A.C. electric positive/line in .
On ships we have wire bundles, no conduit....easier to fault find.
Been looking for a long time for a video that would explain it to a slow guy like me! :) Thanks!
No problem!
Rewiring my project Aquasport boat. So basically I should buy the box with ground and power running through it as a fused thing. So if I’m wiring my boat gauges to motor, I should run the positive gauge wire from gauge to the box and have it go from box to engine, and then have the negative ground out in the box. Just making sure I understand. This video helped a lot and made me feel more confident. Thanks
Or just buy a proper switch panel mate.
Finally a decent video that is easy to understand, thanks mate
My wife is a diy person and we just got a boat. This video will help us rewire the whole boat
Nice craftmanship on your boat and excellent video using the animation. Thank you.
These videos are great. Again. Saving people money. By people i mean me .
great video. I was able to clearly see what it will take to wire up my boat. other videos have been too long...long worded and very confusing. thank you!!
This is the best, easiest to understand video I’ve ever watched on general boat wiring. You gave me confidence to rewire my boat. (Several gauges don’t work). I’ll check out your store. Thank you'
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Excellent video! This will really help me planning and executing the installation in my sailboat which I'm restoring. This video saves me a lot of thinking! Many thanks!
Redoing a sailboat is out of my element. Good luck!
hey man , my name is Stephen, I' m from vegas , thanks for this video , I think its the best one yet about wiring your boat . I'm a fan of your vidoes , keep them up , I just recently got a 17 ft boat . Took out the old motor and looking for a new one. the next step for me would be wiring everything else . Taking out all the wires out to and invest in wires and new lighting .
Great video! minor correction: Electrons flow from the negative side of the battery to the positive. Thanks for sharing!
Michael Lopez. Great videos. Just wanted to tell you about my boat build. Its a 16' john boat side console. I put in rear deck with gas and battery compartment behind two seats and a bait well. The bait well is led lit with two pumps. If im fishing skinny water i can use one pump to recirculate the filled bait well or if im fishing deeper water i can run mu fill pump and switch my recirculate pump to discharge for continuous fresh exchange. I have another casting deck up front that covers my 24vdc battery system for my trolling motor with storage for life vest and such.. For lights im running led NAV, Anchor, Green underwater lights, green bait well light, and 2x 2k lux spot lights up front. The boat is powered by a 40hp outboard with dedicated battery and bilge pump. I originally this project 3 years ago. I only got to use it a hand full of times befoe i was forced to park it. The trailer colapsed during a hurricane and my wife fell ill needing a few surgeries. ( she is very well now). Im excited to say that im almost finished getting the boat back together. With a new to me trailer and fixing some problems with the motor i just took her out for a test run last weekend. She runs great. Cant wait to go fishing. Im so proud of the boat and all the work i put into it. I learned so much from the TBN community and others like it. Thanks for doing these videos. Keep up the great work.
Let me know if i can send you a pic of the boat.
great video!
they also make liquid electrical tape for sealing terminal ends.
Just picked up a 16' x 6' wide flat bottom I'm excited for your videos and to get started on my project
This was a fantastic video! I just bought a Pond Prowler 10, AGM battery and a 40 Endura Max. For the last several weeks I have been watching vids of mods and knew I wanted to plan ahead for things electrical. This makes my planning a whole lot easier.
You need to slide to heat shrink butt connector down the wire then fray both ends of wire and twist them together then pull your butt connector over them and heat makes the pull strength a 10x's stronger but great videos man very inspiring 👍
very professional electrical work
Exactly what I need. Thanks for taking the time to make and publish the video. Take care
Great video. Invest in a crimper the doesn't risk puncturing the the heat shrink connector. Like a ratchet style crimper designed specifically for those connectors your using in the video.
Excellent video! you have officially "completed the circuit" of my electrical thinking process.
Bought the low temp solder connectors off your Amazon store and they are awesome. So much better than standard butt connectors. Thank you!!
Great video! Couldn’t help but laugh when I saw the box of oatmeal cream pies. Love those !😂
I'm an engineer and have been commercial fishing over 22 years. You will not find crimp connectors on my boats. I am a fan of the solder connectors. Crimp connectors are a guaranteed fail spot, heat shrink or no. It's basically an arc short in the wire. Soldering basically makes a solid connection in the wire with minimal resistance. If you can not solder, get the solder connections. Save yourself a lot of headaches. Also, if you use buss bars, make sure you use fuseable links or connection to a fuse block for the power out. Nice video
The sottering connectors are not USCG approved. There is no telling how long they will last before the exterior dry-rots. USCG also recommends the use of Crim connectors over soldering because of the constant shaking and shuttering of the boat over time, which recommends the most flexible and durable connection. Soldering is supposed to be used sparingly in a boat.
@@TinyBoatNation that's not correct. The only regulation on connection ends are crimp or pressure style connectors are to be crimped with the tool designed to use with the specific pressure connector, (if you are using Ancor connectors you are required to use an Anchor crimper), and they have a pull force requirement for the connectors. it is recommended to solder wire ends prior to crimping, Soldered wires are not to be the only mechanical means of connecting wires, wire nuts are only permitted in certain applications ( sodium or Mercury Halide lighting) and must be in a weatherproof box and properly wrapped with chaff tape, insulting tape and immobilized in the box. Oh and set screw terminal plugs must have a pressure plate under the screw. I think that's it. I personallyl recommend using terminal connectors at your wire connections and the only reason why Soldered wires are not to be the sole mechanical means is because of temperature and the chance of the solder melting it if the wire gets hot enough. Movement isn't a factor because of securing the wire through conduit or every 16 or 18 inches with a cushion clamp. See I have to take this test every 5 years to renew my licenses through the Coast Guard and a lot of the things it covers is this kind of regulations.
Now that's the best Video going by far, thank God 🤦😂
Somewhere out there in the ether there is hope
Excellent video. Highly detailed yet straightforward. Keep up the work!
This is exactly what I needed.
I have watched this video several times when I need a refresher. great video
If you have a lot of accessories in one general area, you can save a lot of wire and have a neater installation by running a single larger wire to a local ground bus. This saves having to run 4-5 individual ground wires all the way back to your switch panel.
Great video and tips. Animated illustrations are cool and very helpful! Well done! 👍🏼
Great video Michael. Of course, this was a demo, but no one would ever connect a red and yellow wire together. On boats, Red is for positive, Yellow is for negative. Good tutorial!
Connecting a red wire to a yellow wire is not a “GOOD TUTORIAL”
Stupid question - how does all this tie into the motor? I only want to use one battery.
awesome vid.... I am redoing a 16 ft bass tracker 40hp merc. you have some great tips and tricks. thanks
just bought a used boat and plan on doing some additions along with possible complete re-wire, This Video was very helpful. Sure appreciate the time you took. Thank again!! By the way, have any more of those oatmeal cream pies?? YUMMIE!!!
I'm new to your channel
And I learned a lot from this video
Thank you
Great video. Now i just need a boat!
I'm gonna tell you about a life changing tool for what you are doing especialy those sick ass solder connectors surface mount rework hot air gun. It's for doing surface mount pcb rework it's a heat gun that gets hot 5 times as fast as what you are using, has digital temp control, adjustable air , multiple nozzles for adjusting the outlet, and best of all gets up to 800degrees and is made to melt solder. Try melting solder with your heat gun. Get one it will change your life. thank me later. Also Newark, digikey , mouser , are 3 different online electrical component supply houses .
Great video. Learned a lot.
Great Video! Job well done!
Use a heat gun. You won't over heat your connectors or melt/degrade your insulation. But connectors are way better then solder sleeve connectors. They handle hold up longer and are less likely to break from flexing. For those of you that think soldering is a better connection. Power only runs around the outside of the wire so it really doesn't matter if the center has a better connection.
I use a heat gun now
Nicely done, Love doing stereo or lighting stuff on my boat. 👍
Excellent video, enjoy your work , you have helped me make since of some issues, thank,s
Great video for beginners like me , thanks a lot.
Love the video Thanks for all the great advise on wiring. Thinking of adding lights to mine for spring now.
Thank you so so much, while I recalled my boat I’m gonna do this and re wire everything
great video! i have one question--the switch board i bought has 1 end on the back that’s open. so if i run the bilge pump wire into the back of the switches only open pin, how do i run that pin into my fuse box? do i just piggy back the wires at the pin?
Thank you very much for video but could you explain how you connected all nav lights together to go into one switch?
Yes I agree
Piggy back them or buy a 3 way connector.
Excellent video !!! I will be using most of your links to buy the items I need for my boat. Keep up the great work.
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15 minutes...1,000 questions answered! Thanks Brother! Still...I have Just one though...I see many ads for control boxes...is the BUS always necessary or do some of these have it bult in for a simple 12V Boat system needing only a 4 switch panel? Thanks....
You can direct wire in line fuse Wells to them if you want to bypass the bus bar fuse block. The bus bar/fuse block is just a lot easier
The question I have is I have a 1991 bass buggy 16ft pontoon boat.
I've completely restored this pontoon boat but I'm using the original wiring plus wiring harness?
Should I do this or should I completely strip everything out and rewire and run new wires to where I can actually understand how they have been ran plus I'd avoid fires 🔥 🤔!
I'm all about TBNATION BUT MAKING IT HAPPEN ON A 16FT PONTOON BOAT!
POSITIVE FEEDBACK WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!!
Trying to get all the stuff connected directly to my cranking battery on the boat to a board. I order the Blue Sea 5025 St Blade Fuse Block W/Cover - 6 Circuit W/Negative Bus. I got a different one that only has positive. Not sure how your supposed to connect only the positive side of all your accessories so I'm returning that one. I ordered this other Blue Sea fuse block. Hopefully that will work. Our boat has hardly any room in the area where the battery is at. Have to route all the wires positive and negative to the Blue Sea Block. Every time I have to remove the battery it is a total nightmare to get all the wires back on the battery when I put it back in. Have had several times missed a wire that falls to the back and have even had to remove the battery to find the missing wire. So I am looking at installing the Blue Sea 5025 St Blade Fuse Block W/Cover - 6 Circuit W/Negative Bus when I get it. Not sure I even have anywhere to put a on / Off switch at the battery where I would hook onto the battery for the Blue Sea blade.
super video CZ
This is video was very help full thank you
good stuff youtube only took 6 months and 10,0000 videos to find this
lol.
Great video, loving the effort you put into your content too
Super simple and helpful! What kind of loom do you use and how did you finish the loom ends on your pump wiring and hoses? Looks nice and finished!
Awesome video man !!
i love the simple explanation. Thanx!
Would you recommend those oatmeal cream pies for an overall better experience on the water?
Do you ever use a regulator/rectifier from the outboard to charge batteries while the motors running
Excellent video! Does anyone can help me to find out what size of fuse should I install to protect the possitive instalation of my boat? I have a 4 stroke Honda BF150HP ?
thanks!!!
Thank you so much for these videos!
Hey Bro, thanks for video. Just bought a 1982 Cajun bass boat that needs to be completely re-wired. Can’t find boat electrical diagrams or manuals. So, my question to you is, how to set it up for re-wire, and what supplies to bye? Help. AJ, thx
Is it easier to connect all the wires to the fuse box and switch panel and mount them , especially the fuse box, later?
Very detailed video one of the best I seen thank you.
So the wire runs from the fuse box to the switch and then to whatever I am running. The ground wire only goes to the negative of the fuse box from whatever I am running.
The battery wires both go to the fuse box. I should use a shut off switch so I can stop the current to the fuse box.
Is this correct? If so I've got it.
What about fish finders? Can they go through the fuse box with everything else and to a switch to turn it on? I know the wires are quite small that run the fish finders.
I'm re-wiring a Deep V row boat my buddy gave me. I'm going to be building a deck system similar to a bass boat and want to re-due his wiring. The old wiring wasn't any good and everything was corroded, rusted, and rotted away. He had minimal stuff.
Thanks
I just bought a 1978 Procraft 1500 and need to do all wiring!! Is there a manual I can get my hands on or should I just go off my own ??? It looks overwhelming. I hope i can get this on the water one day.
Does it matter what gauge wire I use for ground and let’s say I’m getting power to a bus bar can I connect my power wire from the fuse box to the bus bar since that provides power already
On a 14 bass tracker would the bus bar be behind the dash
That was a great video! Glad I found it and watched it! One question please, If i have two trolling motor batteries connected parallel and I hook one of those batteries to a battery charger, will it end up charging both batteries??
I'm not sure. It makes sense.
From my experience with batteries it will charge all that are connected in parallel.
@@TheDlambert Thanks!
Great explanation on electrical theory that you included
When running from the switch to the distribution block do you keep all the positive wires same length or does it not matter?
I tried to keep all wires the minimum length you can make them. It helps with overheating.
Yooooo that setup is so clean!
Wiring is so intimidating to me and I’m scared to wire something wrong. That and I need to sit down and really watch this video. I praise my I/e guys at the plant man I’m just a dumb ol operator.
amazing video man ur great for taking the time out of your day for this
Thank you
Thanks for sharing! Very useful
Loved your video. I need help with powering two depth finders with one 12 volt battery without interference, Thanks
Thanks very helpful!
Nice video, but just for correctness - what you say at 1:29 is wrong. There is no principal difference between + and - in the circuit. By convention we "ground" the negative, but many older production cars (and boats) have grounded +.
Excellent video. Love the animation.
Great video! This products are salt water resistant ?
I think they are the only thing that can be used in salt water. Heatshrink butter connectors are the only thing permitted.
The best vidéo ! Thank’s
No prob!
Should front nav and back nav be wired separately or together?
@@TinyBoatNation thanks my man! and thanks for all the tips in all your videos, they really help out
great job very helpfull
How did you wire up that big in / off switch. I have wanted to put something like that for years in my boat for my main battery to shut off my power for my electronics etc. I have no idea what wires I need and where to install them in the switch.
Hi Ryan, Thanks so much. Again, Quick question, what gage wire should I use for my lights, bilge and horn
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How would i run multiple leds to one switch. What connectors would I use to complete the loop
That video really helped me out ty
What size wire did you use to feed your fusepanel bus bar?
Do you have any advice on how to make a solenoid connector stay in good shape? For example i got a few older solenoids, the one on now got all green where the connectors are, so say i chop the wires / replace what ever, clean / metal brush the solenoid connector and bolt them on nicely. However since there was corrosion there before, itl corrode quickly again. Do you have any advice how to keep an older connector thats redone from corroding again? Like should i rubber cement that? or how do i just keep it from turning all green again in 6 months. Thanks