After considerable assumptions, suppositions, half drunken research and testing, I have come to some important conclusions regarding sailboat electrics. First of all, all cable must be the largest that is available on the shelf at West Marine or the general electric medium transformer plant nearest you. Secondly, all connections must be made with a custom built $10,000 crimping tool available at a single manufacturer somewhere in the frozen north east. Thirdly, disregard all shorter connections recommended by the manufacturer and go with the longest possible run of largest possible cable. And fourthly, and perhaps most important of all, all connectors connecting bolts terminals and cable must be rendered in solid gold. Anything less than that risks too great of a voltage drop and poor performance by the charging equipment, and miss leading data furnished by the battery monitors.
