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Originally Posted by BCinerie
I have all my electronics hooked to a power bar that has a fuse on it. That bar is connected to my main power switch. I also have inline fuses to the equipment. The main switch powers everything but the bilge pumps , they are hard wired to the batteries!
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+1. Bilge float switches should always be hard wired to the house battery bank. There should be no way of disabling them. Get rid of that 3-way switch (off, auto, on) and re-wire with a 2-way (on & auto).
As for the rest, power off your main power bus. You can either provide discrete fused circuits or go directly off the bus with an inline fuse. All crimp connectors should be waterproof, heat shrink and self-sealing....ancor makes great ones....no soldered connections...solder joints are brittle and boat vibrations will cause them to fail every time.
Ok...I'm done.
