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hi youtubers

jeff cote here with another session of

ask pys

so we have a fellow boater uh who's got

a center console boat

not too big and um he's asking

the following question so robert asks

jeff i'm beginning to rewire center

console

bay boat and was looking for tips on

proper wire management and neatly

securing the wire inside the console

okay good question i love it

remember educate first and then do

never do before educate big fan on

educate inform yourself right

so the first thing um as a

as an amateur and a lot of us are doing

that as boat owners we're amateur to

everything

uh when you're an amateur electrician

the tips for

trying to be like a pro are the

following first of

all neatness

and looking aesthetic is everything

that's rule number one we see this

amongst

other electricians this is generally a

big sort of

indication of both perfection which is

an essential skill of being an

electrician

and being organized another essential

skill of being an electrician

so the first thing is you're going to

want to figure out sort of the cable

routes within the console like how are

you going to go

from one place to the other and you're

going to basically create

channels right and what i use is i'll

use a lot of zip ties

and actually i'll even find ways either

epoxying sort of these little

holders everywhere on the console or if

there's enough meat to the fiberglass

i'm actually even going to use

short fasteners to actually

barely go deep into the fiberglass so i

have a place to affix

all the wires i don't want those wires

to be moving around

okay the other thing advice that i would

say

is make sure that you take the time to

route the wires

in nice shapes so that it actually looks

organized and that it was intended

that's the other thing too

try to follow the code for colors abyc

stipulates

or makes recommendations on different

color codes

so you can actually google abyc marine

wiring colors and they'll give you sort

of different colors for different

purposes so that'd be one way is to

follow the code the other thing too

is we've talked about in other videos is

maybe starting thinking about

adding terminal strips if you've got you

know a boat that has 10

15 20 different sort of dc

loads you might want to think about

bringing all those loads to a terminal

strip

and then from the terminal strip all the

way to the panel so that the panel to

the terminal strip is done once

and never done again so that'd be

something else

make sure that if you're using wiring

you use only marine

tin wire don't waste your time with that

cheap sort of

untin wire remember a 20 year old boat

or

my boat is 31 years old is certainly not

what i consider to be an old boat an old

boat might be a hundred years and some

of those owners still

love their boats there's not many

typical boat owners like car owners that

are training in their boats every three

years

every five years getting a new lease

boats have a very

long life and so our goal as we're

working on these boats that we love

is think listen whatever i'm doing here

this is not a one year two year five

year

this might be a 20 30 40 years sort of a

horizon

so take the time to use good marine

terminals

good marine wiring color coding

supporting the wire every six inches

and making sure you take the time to

make it look aesthetic

it's gonna provide a lot of maybe not so

much just

inspiration but it's gonna when it's

time to sell the boat and if you've got

a knowledgeable buyer and they look

behind the scenes and they see that you

took the time to do it well

that's going to go an extra long way to

get the value of the boat that you

thought you deserved

so great question thanks for asking

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