brettportzer
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- OWNER - I own a Hatteras Yacht
- Hatteras Model
- 43' DOUBLE CABIN (1970 - 1984)
I am looking to clean up the battery wiring in my boat, essentially I'd just like to redo the 4/0 cabling.
Right now the negative connects from port engine, to each battery and back around to the starboard batteries and engine, and the connections are all made with T terminals to the automotive style battery posts.
With the proper parts, I would like to change up the wiring a bit and add in small bus bars on each port and starboard side so as to not have essentially just one long continuous wire and also provide an additional take off point for other wiring, rather than having them simply ganged onto the battery terminals.
I have Ancor tinned copper marine terminals, and envision wiring the negative from engine to battery, battery to battery, and then battery to bus bar on the port side, and then wiring across to a bus bar on the starboard side, and doing the same this over there.
Similar scenario with the positive wiring, basically a port and starboard bus bar to make things easier to deal with.
Right now, with the T terminals everything is just one big chunk of wiring, they are both black, etc, I am trying to modernize this a bit.
Currently this is all wired according to my blueprints, functionally at least, and I am not trying to reinvent the wiring diagram, but rather replace the somewhat corroded terminals and old wiring with something cleaner.
Right now the negative connects from port engine, to each battery and back around to the starboard batteries and engine, and the connections are all made with T terminals to the automotive style battery posts.
With the proper parts, I would like to change up the wiring a bit and add in small bus bars on each port and starboard side so as to not have essentially just one long continuous wire and also provide an additional take off point for other wiring, rather than having them simply ganged onto the battery terminals.
I have Ancor tinned copper marine terminals, and envision wiring the negative from engine to battery, battery to battery, and then battery to bus bar on the port side, and then wiring across to a bus bar on the starboard side, and doing the same this over there.
Similar scenario with the positive wiring, basically a port and starboard bus bar to make things easier to deal with.
Right now, with the T terminals everything is just one big chunk of wiring, they are both black, etc, I am trying to modernize this a bit.
Currently this is all wired according to my blueprints, functionally at least, and I am not trying to reinvent the wiring diagram, but rather replace the somewhat corroded terminals and old wiring with something cleaner.
