New battery shelf and battery bank upgrade

[tjr818]

Hi Steve and all, Here is the article that I used for my cable and fuse size. I got it off of this site years ago. https://www.pbase.com/mainecruising/battery_fusing
I hope the link works if not just cut and paste.
In summary:

8 ft cable run should be 2 AWG, 10' - 1 AWG, 14' 1/0 AWG etc....

8 - 35 HP aux diesel should have a 250 amp fuse minimum

Keith

Wow, for years we have had a 90 amp terminal fuse our YSM8. I felt that it was better to me on the lowest workable fuse size rather than the highest. I understand that we want to avoid the nuisance of blown fuses, I always felt that I had that possibility covered with the spare 150 amp fuse that I kept on board - never had to use it.

[Keith]

Hi All,

The battery compartment upgrade from 2 batteries to 3 is complete. See pics below. I also cleaned up the wire routing quite a bit.

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Battery compartment inprocess.jpg (98.52 KiB) Viewed 163 times

Battery compartment after.jpg (98.5 KiB) Viewed 163 times

Keith

PS cover came off yesterday unfortunately the 10 day forecast has rain for 7 of the 10 days. Hopefully they will be wrong as per usual.

[jbenagh]

Keith,

Looks really good!

Jeff