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Post by tbone on Aug 6, 2006 13:43:15 GMT -6
Howdy Guys and Gals. I'm happy to have been invited to the site.
I'm wirin' my jon boat up, runnin' lights, trollin' motor, bilge pump, aerator in a removable ice chest, two small courtesy lights, and two 12 volt plugs for a spot light or ? . Here's my question.
I have one battery. Wires for all my needs. I've got a switch panel. How do I run all the ground wires? I got a wiring harness off of e-bay that had every thing I needed. All the ground wires were put together in one spot on the harness. I had to take all the wires apart to run them where they are needed. Now I need to reconnect the ground wires. Do they all need to go to each switch on the swith panel? Or connect them all back together and run one wire to the battery? Thanks for any help I get.
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Post by Whiskers on Aug 6, 2006 14:23:55 GMT -6
I'm not sure I understand how you have it wired (i'm kind of slow lol) is your hot wires on the switches on the panel? some panels have the jumpers for your hot and ground on the panel(switches) then you just need the master hot and ground run from the panel to the battery.
If you only have your hot wires on the switches then you could run your grounds together and one wire to the battery. With a little more info we might get it figured out...
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Post by tbone on Aug 6, 2006 16:23:43 GMT -6
Well, maybe I'm the slow one here.... The wires are in place, the panel has not been wired yet. The panel I have is Seasense brand with six switches. On the back they are linked together with red (+) jumpers. Each switch has a breaker linked to it with the red wire. On the switch side there is one red (on) and one stud (off) for attachin' a wire. The panel also has a red lead wire attached to the last breaker (all breakers linked together) with this red wire. There is a "bar" inbetween the switches and breakers with the black (-) wire coming off of it. I guess my dog ate the instructions, I can't find them anywhere.
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Post by Whiskers on Aug 8, 2006 14:06:43 GMT -6
I will have to pull mine off and see how it is wired up,I think it is similar.When Buttons makes it back on here she can probably tell you how they should be wired.She is Supervisor at a plant where they make those panels.She is out of town this week but should be back Friday evening.
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Post by tbone on Aug 8, 2006 20:51:33 GMT -6
That will be great. I've looked everywhere on the net and around the house for the how to wire this puppy up. Thanks....
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Post by Whiskers on Aug 10, 2006 19:45:23 GMT -6
Do you have a digital camera where you could take a couple pictures(front and back) of your panel?I still don't get how it is set up(i think i'm the slow one) Buttons said she could probably get instructions if she knew for sure how it was set up.
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Post by tbone on Aug 10, 2006 21:34:58 GMT -6
Yes I can shoot a few pictures and get'em to ya. Again, thanks for the help.
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Post by Whiskers on Aug 10, 2006 21:53:49 GMT -6
ok just email them to me it might be easier,you have to use photobucket or a 3rd party host to post pictures on here but anyway you want to do it will be fine.
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Post by tbone on Aug 11, 2006 21:22:13 GMT -6
Whiskers. I sent two pictures to ya on an old e-mail address I have for ya. The same one that I sent the joke to. If I need to send them to the e-mail address listed here under yer name, I can do that also. I just now clicked on yer name "Whiskers" and seen ya got an e-mail different than what I sent the pictures to.
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Post by Whiskers on Aug 11, 2006 21:41:02 GMT -6
That's fine,i will check it.I have more email addy's than carter has liver pills.lol
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Post by Whiskers on Aug 11, 2006 22:09:41 GMT -6
I got the picture and was looking them over.I will dig out my glasses in the morning(don't want to wake up everyone looking for them tonight) and check it out.From what I can see it looks like you would tie all your grounds together and run to the black then run it on to the battery then just put your hots on the panel but my eyes are getting old quicker than the rest of me so I will look with my glasses tomorrow.
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Post by Whiskers on Aug 12, 2006 11:31:09 GMT -6
After looking at the panel in the light I can see how it is set up now.Your ground wires don't run to your switches at all.You can connect all the grounds back together and run one wire to the battery,you can connect the black wire from the panel to them, or run it to the battery seperate whichever is easier.the black wire to the panel is only for making the little lights work on the panel and grounding it so you don't get zapped when you touch it (boat doesn't have a chassis ground like a car) then all you have to do is hook up the right hot wire to each lug on the switch and run the big red wire on the panel to the battery.
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Post by Whiskers on Aug 12, 2006 11:54:50 GMT -6
here is some wire harness color standards just for gits and shiggles
Black---------------------------------All Grounds Black with Yellow stripe---------Magneto/short to Kill Gray----------------------------------Tachometer signal Yellow with Black stripe---------Choke Red----------------------------------Unprotected(12V+)from battery Red with Purple stripe-----------Protected(+12V)from battery Purple-----------------------------(+12V)from ignition switch Tan------------------------------Overheat sensor to warning horn Pink-------------------------------Sending unit to fuel guage Yellow with Red stripe----Ignition switch to starter solenoid Yellow-----------------------------charging stator to rectifier Lt.Blue with White stripe--------Trim up Green with White stripe-----------Trim down
Some more standard wire colors used on many inboard boats, always double check though, as some vary or may have been changed along the way!
Some standard colors for boats since 1980 are as follows:
· heavy red 10 guage (main battery)
· heavy black (main ground)
· purple (ignition)
· yellow (starter solonoid)
· grey (tachometer)
· brown (temperature)
· blue (oil pressure)
· brown with stripe (alarm)
Accesories
· pink (fuel sending unit)
· yellow (blower)
· brown (bilge pump)
· grey (navigation lights)
· heavy green (bonding wire)
· red (misc electrical add-ons , vhf , depth finder, stereo, radar, power supplies)
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Post by Whiskers on Aug 12, 2006 12:02:29 GMT -6
while I'm at it...
Trailer Light Wire colors
Yellow- left turn signal
Green- right turn signal
Brown - Tail lights
White- Ground
When brakes are applied power is sent to yellow and green.
You may need a taillight converter if you have a non US made truck or car.
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Post by tbone on Aug 13, 2006 12:36:50 GMT -6
"THANKS" Whiskers ! This is the help I needed. Now if it was only in the 90's and not 100 degrees here @ 1:36pm I'd be out there jackin' with it. It's gonna be 105 today!!
Thanks again.
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