Wiring up Sooners DC: Part 4 – New breaker panels
Sooners old breaker panel for the DC was old and not actually wired up to anything (the fridge etc...
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Wiring up Sooners DC: Part 2 – The New Schematic
So I actually got off my arse and made a (very) high level schematic which should save me at least...
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Wiring up Sooners DC: Part 1 – The old wiring
So this has actually been an ongoing project over the last (checks calendar* seven?! wow) months...
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Summer updates
It’s been a while since I did a new post – most of the reason for that is that...
Read MoreElectrical panel overall and AIS install
So FINALLY today I got around to installing the last two breakers on my control panel, and rearranging everything. Now, finally ‘living space stuff’ is all in the center panel and ‘sailing around stuff’...
Read MoreAdding a separate nav light panel and panel light switch
One of the things I have realised as I squeeze more gizmos onto Gudgeon is that I may actually be low on breaker space – which was not something I had imagined would be possible! So, I decided to add an entirely separate...
Read MoreReplacing the electrical board LED strip
So when I got to the bottom of my electrical panel – I noticed the middle three backlights were not working. I investigated, and figured out it was the central LED board, and called Blue Seas, who to their credit,...
Read MoreHooking up the heater electrics
So now I had a chimney, a heater, and a fuel line. The only thing left was to hook up the 12v electrics. Now one of the good things about the Newport is that it technically needs no power to run. However it comes with a fan to...
Read MoreRainbows and Refrigerators
Today, I ran all the wire for the fridge/freezer, so instead of plugging into AC power it now runs off DC power, i.e my battery. So I can keep beer and icecream available even while out at sea! My panel is getting pretty crowded...
Read MoreInstall the DC System Part 4 – Branch Circuits
Finally the last thing to do was hook up all the circuits to the panel. Rather then add yet more endless pictures of wires and circuits, I’ll just have one – the little bus bar I ran all the lights to, and which then...
Read MoreInstall the DC System Part 3 – Hooking up the multimeter
The next stage was to get the integrated multimeter working. This required running 4 separate wires back to the batteries/shunt from the panel – which was annoying. Even more annoying was that 2 of them had to be twisted...
Read MoreFusing the batteries
One thing that needed to be done was install a fuse within 7 inches of the battery. I decided to use a Marine Rated Battery Fuse (MRBF) with a 200amp fuse – it was a bit higher than the 100amp breaker on the panel, but I...
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