SUPER EASY Boat Wiring Electrical Diagrams, Fuse blocks, busbars, marine grade

every item used in this video can be found in my Amazon store please check out the description and click on the links below [Music] [Applause] I have the full wiring layout for how I did this boat and this is the best wiring layout that I have period also got fairly good at this whole like animated thing like diagram thing and so really I can show you step by step how everything flows how everything works why random wires how I went so I mean one of the biggest thing is like people see the convolution the wires and like freak out this is showing you how they ran why they ran that way and why it's not hard at all to wire your own boat and this this same feature though it's specifically tailored toward a boat will apply for a car will apply for essentially anything we're using all marine grade hardware and fittings and everything else and I just can't wait to show this all to you check it out right now really quick tutorial for those who are just learning about how kind of that the power of the wiring circuits works you need a battery or a generator or an outlet of some sort something generating power coming out from one side and the circuit I mean the right generally represents the positive or power end going to the accessories or the lighting and then to complete the circuit you need a ground in and it has to go in this flow okay this it has to complete a circuit in such a way now the ground it has a little bit more place so as long as there is something that conducts electricity to complete the circuit but you can't do that with the positive end the positive end needs to be attached to a power source or you just don't get it remember the power is always supposed to flow through the one end so trying to reverse the circuit is very unsafe and I strongly recommend against that experiments or doing anything like that do you remember how it flows we will later talk about ways to interrupt the current with switches to control your accessories and lights as well as ways to fuse and safeguard your stuff from any kind of fails or fires I use the anchor marine grade products this is their wire this is 14 gauge wire is what I have left to show you this is actual true marine grade wire look at the thickness okay look at the thickness of the sleeve and this is number and grade wire okay look how thin the sleeve is the the coating and obviously this is tin copper versus standard copper so in case of wire has a bunch of copper strands running through it now when the fires in use and electricity's going through it and it's exposed to moisture it starts to corrode rather quickly very quickly and you'll start to turn green and once those strands start some green they start to become useless and not actually conduct electricity anymore so you start to see your diameter of wire actually start to shrink from whatever it was ten gate 12 gauge 14 gauge all the way down to lower and that's where you start getting fires because whatever you needed was hooked to was meant for a 14 gauge but it's only running off 22 gauge of wire and then you just watch you see your entire wire deteriorate so we start seeing shorts a melting deteriorated color in the coating you know bad stuff fires but when you tin the copper and you increase the toughness of the coating it changes the game so when it's exposed to moisture while electricity is going through it it's not going to stay non corroded forever but it does resist corrosion rather well and then we use marine grade connectors with shrink wrap that wrap around the wire if you're not already wrapping standard connectors and shrink wrap to do it but we're going to show you a few examples of marine grade shrink butt connectors and terminal connectors right now water tight he's drinking butt connectors they crimp and then you take a lighter and we're gonna demonstrate this here a little bit one we also got a bunch of terminals of the exact same shrink wrap ended book connectors these are all marine grade stuff we also use these these are apps actually exceptionally awesome these are low temps solder heating tubes I'll show you how these work also there's a pack of 25 5 amp fuses 5 amp fuses are actually very hard to find out in like the general public you kind of have to special order them I have a link for these down in my Amazon store as well check them out though I didn't use this I did purchase this as a blue c-systems busbar this is a full marine grade busbar this is a tin plated copper bus the tin copper definitely a big must it's definitely a big big deal and marine grade applications these are the types of switches I was using I was using a three prong and I'll show you exactly how these work in my animated schematic you can also just run a two prong which is even simpler I made my own custom switch panel I have to show you the note in a different video that I'll also link here somewhere I also have a playlist on all my electronic stuff I like to grease for all the areas that shrink wrap and everything else can't cover so it really goes a long way in terms of weather proofing and water and almost waterproofing stuff too so you put the wires in pass the point here so they inter cross in that solder section that's a low temp solder section and so once they're crossed in like that you want them crossed you want the wires past the blue point you don't want to cut so much wire off that it's like an you really want the sleeve past the blue the the coating you get a heat gun there's a super gun that works the best on these and I'll link that down here if you really want it but I'm going to use a very long bit lighter what I'm gonna do is I'm going to heat shrink the end first that's like important because if you don't do that and I swear the solder will start to run down the tube and you'll see it and I've done that so now that you know you need to do the ends first that way the middle is left very tight and the solder can't shrink or fly down the rest anywhere now you have left as a solder and use make sure if you don't have a lighter you need to make sure that you have equal heating on each side right now this is this flaming gulfs the entire thing you see the solder shrink if you can see it's shrink that's getting in there and so that's done I know this camera is so good you can see where that solder clearly clearly commissioning the wires that's a pretty genius stuff that is really really high temp shrink wrap I swear it barely scorches and I had that thing in the flame for a minutes but you can tell where the low temp soldering how it's all nice and perfect to wear it definitely melted alright so for people who saw those low temps other connectors and weren't too crazy about those you can get heat shrink terminal and butt connectors all day you can get them down there in the link description mice and in my video or you can I think find them at autozone too as well so it's the same purpose as a solder it's just a piece of metal wrapping two wires to give it the best you know connection possible and then we shrink wrap around the wires most are secured securely crimped we go around each end like so until the shrinks around the wire like so and that's just as big as the other connector it's just a matter of preference but I wanted to show you guys both ones that's marine grade coating click them in it a little bit of scorching on the bottom this is standard coating so this is a little bit more durable in terms of heat resistance it's a little bit better I mean the Center for marine grade is serious there are specific standards that marine grade stuff has to meet in order to 14 classifies marine grade versus Center grade stuff okay so this is my boat sketch layout it's almost verbatim what it's like but this is a very quick sketch to show you how I have it I have one main section for all the wiring that's all right here and you can see it all just kind of closer there so that's where all the main circuits and busbars and everything are and then right here is we're running six gauge wire for all the trolling motors I'm running forward and aft trailing motors in plugs and sections and right there in a battery box right it can be the run of 24 or 36 volt system and right here where we have the main cluster is where we have all the wires running in through the fuse block in the busbar into the switch panel now this is a blue see systems diagram for their bus bar I think it's awesome it's a 12 gang run everything run all your stuff off with just one setup very very nice and easy to access it's very nice but just really there's a you run a power end you're going to ground it I recommend 8 gauge water minimum from your battery and then literally just all your other wires all your power and all your ground it's just for every power and fuse set up it has a ground setup right underneath it and I ran all 5 amp fuses for 14 gauge wire close to my fuses for the fishfinder stuff as that's what was recommended I made my own switch panel this time that's a custom switch panel we'll just switches I bought and these are the switches that I use they're just like three gang switches so no more four or five game switches where you have to play musical wires and blow a bunch of fuses to figure out what the layout is tired of that crap these are easy they're all the same one positive in and out plus a ground to give you an extra LED light light up if you want the light I think really care about the light didn't use it but anyways from that switch I ran the power in as you see into one prong and then out the other positive prong I ran it all to the accessories to the bilge to the research to the aerator to the LEDs to the nav lights to anything that required power and a switch to control it and then I have the green wires just for demonstration to the live wall timers because you can also run those to the research and aerator pumps as well but it all completes one circuit as you're viewing here very nicely worked like a boss and charm and and everything is super accessible I'll show it to you in a little bit but all these worn clusters I used red and yellow wine yellow for the ground this time the blue on the diagram here represents where I put all the lights everywhere so I have a ton of lights everywhere the light green area represents kind of the accessories the bilge and the research pumps so you can see how all lights stuck lights everywhere super crucial for what I got going on here I need them for the night it changed your entire experience especially when you're filming I and here's where the pumps are again the bill to research an aerator pumps and then here is where the six gauge wire is ran to the plugs for both forward and aft trolling motors I just have a truck a 24 volt system for about 24 volt trolling motors forward and a half and then I have a completely separate 12 volt battery in the corner to isolate for all my power items all power to my accessory items are controlled by a main on and off master switch which makes everything much easier and safer to run in this whole setup we're gonna go in here we're gonna give ourselves power power and let's give ourselves a little bit of light here that way we can actually see what we're doing my rod lockers all lit up and although it is extremely annoying I was supposed to have two of these that are white to flood in here but I I'll replace this one eventually I sent me an orange one not quite a fan of that but okay front nav and the rear and nav pushing on water pretty well [Laughter] this thing is almost done ski it literally drained the time we were talking that's very very quick that's a thousand pound yeah that's a thousand gallon per hour and build that thing just empties water check out my other stuff guys if you're active on YouTube subscribe I got a bunch of other stuff coming out thank you very much everybody well my fans audience patrons I love you all I'll see you all out there [Music]

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Length: 12min 45sec (765 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 24 2018