fallguy1000 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 06, 2022 7:18 pm
And no reason to say I am a keyboard jockey. I am genuinely concerned about a boat fire 100 miles in the gulf. Maybe it is the kick in the hiney I needed Ken..
No Dan, It's not always about you! LOL
You are paying a lot of detail as to the way your boat should be wired. I was looking at the schematics on Blue Sea Systems website and not all of their ARCs are fused on the small ground side.
If I was far offshore or even across one of our lakes around me, I would not want to have to fight an electrical fire that with just a few bucks and time I could prevent.
Funny story, on our gas-powered canoe, I installed a marine 12V outlet to plug things into. It has a 10-amp resettable circuit breaker. Had a passenger plug a USB charger into it and then to his phone. We launched before daylight to get to a inshore fishing spot before the tide started to move. A little breezy and had a few breakers coming over the bow and spray blown by the wind. The salt water soaked the complete set up. Few seconds there was flames and smoke all coming from the charging cord. My circuit was protected but you cannot put a fuse on stupid.
"that it isn't just an ordinary sort of boat. Sometimes it's a Boat, and sometimes it's more of an Accident. It all depends." "Depends on what?" "On whether I'm on the top of it or underneath it."
A. A. Milne