Sunday, July 25, 2010

Wiring panel

Like a lot of other things on theboat, this is a mix of good and bad.

The original wiring is good. Good solid marine panel, marine grade wiring, soldered joints with waterproofing, top quality components. The original wiring is all run inside bulkheads or above the false deckhead.

Then there's the extra wiring that was added to make the boat more liveable by the last owner. Ordinary domestic extension cords, wire nuts, unlabelled wiring dropping behind cabinetry or running over surfaces. Yuck.


Here's the main panel. The labels were handwritten on scraps of masking tape, and many were illegible. The temporary labelmaster labels are my work till I get engraved ones, and were largely identified by trial and error.

This is the back of the main panel. The nice neat lines and bundles of red and green wires are original. The spaghetti of white indoor extension cord is not.

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