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Thread: Rewiring the boat

  1. #1
    Thunderbutt
    I'm going to rewiring my boat so I need some ideas on location of the fuse block. It is now on the transom with a maze of wires that look like I threw a pot of spaghetti at it. This is a 20 foot cruiser.

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    Unchained
    For a better idea than the hairball of wires wrapped in tape I used some of this electrical cable.

    I'm a distributor for this equipment.
    The cable comes with up to 12 wires in a flat cable or up to 36 wires in a round cable.
    It's double insulated and it's pretty cheap also.
    8 conductor cable is $ 1.25/ft.
    I throw away anything less than 20' lengths.
    We have it on 500' spools.
    If you were closer I'd give you a left over length.
    On my boat I used a piece of 8 conductor flat cable. The wires come all numbered and color coded.
    Mark

  3. #3
    Craig
    You also might want to check out Painlesswiring.com They make some nice kits. I used one to wire up my old jetboat and will use one of their musclecar kits whenever I get my GS going

  4. #4
    kojac
    Unchained:
    For a better idea than the hairball of wires wrapped in tape I used some of this electrical cable.

    I'm a distributor for this equipment.
    The cable comes with up to 12 wires in a flat cable or up to 36 wires in a round cable.
    It's double insulated and it's pretty cheap also.
    8 conductor cable is $ 1.25/ft.
    I throw away anything less than 20' lengths.
    We have it on 500' spools.
    If you were closer I'd give you a left over length.
    On my boat I used a piece of 8 conductor flat cable. The wires come all numbered and color coded.
    Mark

  5. #5
    kojac
    Unchained,
    What size is the wire? 10,12,14,16. Am planning on rewiring my jet.
    thanks kojac.

  6. #6
    Unchained
    You can get it in any gauge up to battery cable size but the two most common sizes we use are,
    8 conductor 16 ga or
    4 conductor 12 ga

  7. #7
    Thunderbutt
    UNchained, Now that looks neet. Is it strand or solid wire? Who is the manufactor? I'll see if I can get some here. Thanks

  8. #8
    79Hawaiian

  9. #9
    Unchained
    Thunderbutt:
    UNchained, Now that looks neet. Is it strand or solid wire? Who is the manufactor? I'll see if I can get some here. Thanks Look in the phone book in your area and find someone who's in the overhead crane business and ask them for a length of festoon cable. The brand I handle is Duct-O-Wire but there are several different manufacturers. The wire is fine stranded and very flexible.
    Mark

  10. #10
    Thunderbutt
    79Hawaiian, Is that a wire loom? Who makes it? I can't read the name on the connector.

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