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From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Fri Oct 14 2005 - 12:36:48 EDT
In a message dated 10/6/2005 11:36:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
writes:
I keep going back and forth here. How about one bus
down each side of the boat, so you don't have to run
wires all over from side to side?
That is about what I do, but instead of on the centerline the busses are
tucked up along the hull/deck join where most of the loads actually are and it
works great.
The house batteries are in the center of the boat and four busses run down
each side, along the hull/deck join fore and aft. The forward running pair meet
at the electric windlass. The loads branch off the busses at points where
they are needed and these tend to be in groups, such as the head of a berth, a
desk or workbench, galley, head and nav station. I install a fuse block at each
location. NAPA makes a good one that has six blade fuses in a black plastic
block but I had to add a stud to the block skirt alongside the positive
terminal for the negative leads.
There are very few loads controlled by remote switches, notably helm to
engineroom controls. The running lights, for example, are controlled by switches
just inside the boat from where the lights are located.
Norm
S/V Bandersnatch
Lying Gloucester MA
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