Links to generic boat wiring...

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Brian D

Brian D

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Feb 17, 2006
5,274
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Anyone have any links to boat wiring including the charger, shore power, batteries, distribution panels? Not the products but the schematics. I once posted a link but I have scoured the archive and cannot find it. I also did different searches and found a diagram for a Catalina, but now I can't find that one either. Thanks.
 
Stu Jackson

Stu Jackson

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Feb 26, 2004
23,344
Catalina 34 224 Maple Bay, BC, Canada
Go to almost any Catalina Association website

and they'll have "manuals" and download or print the wiring diagram page(s) out. Try www.c34.org for example, left side index. There's also this: http://www.c34.org/projects/projects-electrical-system-upgrade-2.html The basic "trick" is to get the danged alternator output OFF the 1-2-B switch and run it to your house bank, and determine what's appropriate for you to use to charge the start bank: combiner, echo charger, switches, etc.
 
Brian D

Brian D

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Feb 17, 2006
5,274
Lancer 27PS MCB Camp Pendleton KF6BL
Yeah... C34 link...

Why didn't I think of that? Matter of fact, I have the C34 manual on my hard drive. Forgot all about that. Thanks. I am so wanting a C34. Have the funds for one but no place to put it. Curse the west coast. Benny, why buy a book when there is tonnes of info on the net for free? (rhetorical question)
 
Bill Roosa

Bill Roosa

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Jun 6, 2006
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currently boatless wishing Harrington Harbor North, MD
Why buy a book????

Cause a book can give you ideas that you would never think about. For instance: If you sail Europe and the Americas, you have to contend with 110 v 60 and 220 50 cycle AC currents. Well if you set your system up as an inverter driven boat there are battery chargers that can handle everything from 90 to 240 and both 50 and 60 Hz current. The battery charger becomes your isolation and converter transformer and the inverter handles your AC loads. This can be LOTS cheaper than having 2 battery chargers and conversion transformer and an inverter.
 
Ross

Ross

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Jun 15, 2004
14,693
Islander/Wayfairer 30 sail number 25 Perryville,Md.
A book can go a long way towards teaching you

how much you still have to learn. The more I learn the more I realize how much I don't know.
 
Brian D

Brian D

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Feb 17, 2006
5,274
Lancer 27PS MCB Camp Pendleton KF6BL
No argument there...

But you didn't read what I wrote. Lets try this again. "Why buy a book when the information is readily available on the net for free." If there is no information, then I buy a book. So, I couldn't find any decent info on sail trim on the net, so I bought a book for that info. I couldn't find any decent information on boat canvas work, so I bought a book.
 
Ross

Ross

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Jun 15, 2004
14,693
Islander/Wayfairer 30 sail number 25 Perryville,Md.
Brian D, It goes beyond seeking information

about things that you know about. Sometimes a book will introduce you to things that you didn't know existed. That is where the fun of learning starts. I am about to hijack this thread with no apologies. When you find a book within a field in which you have an interest and start reading quite often you learn that you have been concentrating on a very narrow aspect of the subject. Most people scrub the growth off the bottom of their boats with no thought as to what they are removing. But find a very basic book on marine biology and you discover that there is a wonderful world of underwater life out in those waters. I use the internet as a first place to look when I encounter a new to me almost anything. After that I lurk in the used book stores for volumes that will help to make me more knowledgable in the world in which I live and play.
 
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Tom S

Not sure exactly what you are looking for

Though I've always thought Blue Seas website (and their products) were very good. They have all sorts of good info on how to wiring up your boat and even ABYC specifications Check the Technical Briefs Section http://bluesea.com/resources/2 and the application Briefs http://bluesea.com/resources/1
 
Brian D

Brian D

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Feb 17, 2006
5,274
Lancer 27PS MCB Camp Pendleton KF6BL
Ross...

Hijack away, please. As I said, I do not disagree with you about books. They are a great source of reference material. Thanks Tom.
 
Ross

Ross

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Jun 15, 2004
14,693
Islander/Wayfairer 30 sail number 25 Perryville,Md.
Do you have Nigel Calder's electrical and

mechanical handbook?
 
Ross

Ross

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Jun 15, 2004
14,693
Islander/Wayfairer 30 sail number 25 Perryville,Md.
Tom, One of the things that trip people up

is thinking somewhat narrowly. Electricity is used in cars and boats and houses to make light, and to make things turn, to make heat and to entertain us. There is very little difference between flipping a switch at home to run a garbage disposal and pushing a button on your boat to start an engine. We like to color code the wires so that we can know that the purple wire serves a different purpose than the red wire. But in truth a piece of colored tape or a strip of tape with numbers or letters will work as well when placed on each end of the wire. Ther wire for carrying power to your cook stove must be larger than the wire going the the light above the stove because each has a certain load to carry. Bigger men can carry bigger loads the small boys can carry.
 
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Scott

A helpful basic book ...

Sailboat Electrics Simplified by Don Casey. Why buy a book? Much handier than the internet. I can trust the source. I can buy a product from an individual who made the time, investment and has an interest in helping people like me.
 
Fred Ficarra

Fred Ficarra

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Dec 2, 2003
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Book;

THE great invention. Made civilization and the modern world possible. Without it we would have no way to gain, maintain or pass-on knowledge. Made the internet possible. Books are everything. OK off the soapbox,,,*box
 
Stu Jackson

Stu Jackson

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Feb 26, 2004
23,344
Catalina 34 224 Maple Bay, BC, Canada
We keep helping, the issue is RESOURCES

with an emphasis on the S in resourceS. I believe our goal is to share information, regardless of hijacking thread, to help folks. Also try www.amplepower.com, download their Primer, you've (maybe) heard this before (from me, since you are here a lot!), the {Primer has lotsa of wiring diagrams. If you can't download the wiring diagrams, (dare I say this?) then buy the BOOK(s). :)
 
sailaway78

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May 11, 2005
3,431
Seidelman S37 Slidell, La.
I Might Add

a little to what Ross said. Go down to the Home Depot/Lowes, and get you some of the numbered labels they make for just this purpose. Label each wire on both ends. This will eliminate any looking and hunting for the correct wire in a harness. Also, if it is necessary to make any splices, protect them well, and make as few as is possible. And Fred that is a very good looking, well laid out panel.
 
Capt Jim24025

Capt Jim24025

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Aug 26, 2005
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I LOVE the Internet and all the information it makes available to us. I've been a computer programmer for 34 years and a database administrator for about 20 years. However, in all those years I never did curl up with a nice laptop for a several hours. Well, err, there is one nice "lap top" but that's another story. Jim
 
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